PHPStorm Live Templates for Magento 2

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Until the PHPStorm issue IDEA-184753 is resolved, the normal installation process for read-only repositories will not work.

Instead, you will need to install this collection of templates manually. You can do this by getting your configuration directory from https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tuning-the-ide.html, then symlinking the Magento.xml template into it's template directory.

For example on a Mac you would:

# clone out the repo
git clone [email protected]:markshust/phpstorm-magento-live-templates.git ~/Sites/phpstorm-magento-live-templates

# setup a symlink to the template within the templates directory
# ln -s ~/Sites/phpstorm-magento-live-templates/templates/Magento.xml ~/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/<product><version>/templates/Magento.xml

# for example, PHPStorm 2020.2:
mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/PhpStorm2020.2/templates/
ln -s ~/Sites/phpstorm-magento-live-templates/templates/Magento.xml ~/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/PhpStorm2020.2/templates/Magento.xml

After restarting PHPStorm, the live templates should then show up at Preferences > Editor > Live Templates > Magento.

Please upvote the issue at IDEA-184753 and show your support for it in a comment, so the following steps can be used instead once it is resolved:

1. In PHPStorm, Go to Preferences > Tools > Settings Repository
2. Add a new Read-only Source with the URL: https://github.com/markshust/phpstorm-magento-live-templates
3. Restart PHPStorm

With a file open, start typing the live template abbreviation. If a lot of other autocompletes show up, tap the up arrow (live template abbreviations appear last).

• magentoConfigClassPreferenceXml: template for class preference within config XML
• magentoConfigPluginXml: template for plugin within config XML
• magentoCspXml: template for csp_whitelist.xml
• magentoDiXml: template for di.xml
• magentoEventXml: template for event.xml
• magentoLayoutsXml: template for layouts.xml
• magentoLayoutViewModelXml: template for view model within layout XML
• magentoLayoutXml: template for layout.xml
• magentoModuleXml: template for module.xml
• magentoRegistrationPhp: template for registration.php
• magentoRoutesXml: template for routes.xml

1. Find the PHPStorm configuration directory for your operating system
2. Inside that directory is a templates directory
3. You can clone this repo out to this directory and submit edits to the Magento.xml file

All live templates are to be suffixed with either Xml or Php depending on the scope. This is to avoid confusion since a lot of templates will be created over time.

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