Blog Entries Tagged "phpstorm" on Milwaukee Web Developer, PHP and Laravel Programmer, Consultant

Fixing PHPStorm when Git Stops Responding

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PHPStorm suddenly stopped recognizing my git repository. I cleared the cache, restarted the IDE, but nothing helped. I jumped to my terminal, ran git from the command line, and everything worked fine there. Confusing, right?

Let me explain why this happened and how I fixed it for good.

Customize Laravel Ide Helper to Autocomplete Blade Files

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’m working with Yajra DataTables in a Laravel project and I’ve ran into a little bit of a headache. They provide their own render() method, which you pass a blade file to as the first parameter. Something like users.dogs.index - and through that mechanism it loads the proper blade for the datatable.

Here’s the problem, though. I can’t get auto complete and I can’t click through on that in PHPStorm. But I want to. Let’s find out how.

Phpstorm Terminal LC_ALL Error Fix

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:39:43 -0600

When a new terminal opens in PHPStorm on macOS, I was getting a weird error: bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US-u-hc-h12-u-ca-gregory-u-nu-latn): Invalid argument.. Strange, I use Oh My Zsh with the Zsh shell. Why am I getting that error? Why bash? I could ignore it each time - but I wanted a fix.

PHPStorm Docker Not Starting Fix

Sat, 31 May 2025 18:33:45 -0500

Recently, I had an issue with PHPStorm not detecting my Docker configuration. I was using Docker Compose and everything worked fine with docker cli and Orbstack. Why wouldn’t PHPStorm recognize this? It’s a simple fix, actually. It has to do with the name of your project. Let me explain.

Use PHPDoc in Laravel Blade files for autocomplete in PHPStorm

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I love PHPStorm, but it can only do so much. Even with plugins like Laravel Idea, you may still have some missing features. One that I wish I had was autocomplete of models from collections or paginators in blade files. Well, turns out there’s an easy enough way to add this functionality for yourself.

Highlight Laravel Logs in PHPStorm

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’d like to say I don’t ever have tons of error logs in my Laravel projects - but, sometimes it happens. With a sea of text, how can you see what you need to see easily? Enter JetBrain’s idealog plugin in PHPStorm.

PHPStorm File Watcher for Immediate Error Log Alerts

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

When PHP errors happen, often times there is an error log. This might be in the PHP error log itself or in a log file. For example, in one of my Laravel projects, I have two log files, one for errors and one for info or debug level information.

Export Git Project

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I manage any WordPress plugins I create using git. In order to create a distribution of those, I need to zip up the source code and use that to upload to the marketplace (or directly upload). This was easy with SVN - I just used an svn export command and there we go.

Documentation Tools for PHPStorm

Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I like when projects have documentation, yet I hate writing it. That’s why I rely on phpDocumentor to do most of my documentation for my project. Recently, I’ve also discovered a new tool for documenting my API: ApiDoc. I’ve also been relying heavily on vagrant for my projects.

A couple cool features of PHPStorm 5

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve recently moved to PHPStorm. I’ve done a little bit of configuration and I plan to start using it more now. Here are a few things I really like: