Stubs

Phpactor has two types of “stubs”:

PHP Core Stubs

These stubs fill in for definitions (classes, functions and constants) that are defined in the PHP core or in PHP extensions. Phpactor expects the path to be a single directory and that directory is configured by default to be the one containing the PHPStorm stubs that are bundled with Phpactor.

You probably do not want to change this setting, but the directory can be changed at as worse_reflection.additive_stubs.

Additive Stubs

These stubs augment existing classes. For example, in Laravel you may use the Laravel IDE Helper package to provide missing “magic” methods and properties. New definitions cannot be provided with additive stubs.

You can specify these stub files with worse_reflection.additive_stubs and the stubs will merge onto the existing definitions.

Note

Additive stubs should not be indexed as Phpactor will be unable to determine which definition is the canonical one. If you use additive stubs ensure that you also manually specify which directories contain your project code (typically src and tests).

The indexer include patterns can be specified with indexer.include_patterns.