make-context-menu.md

artisan:make Commands for the context menu

Because this plugin internally executes php artisan make, most features just work as you would expect.

🏳️‍🌈 Flags

You can pass every flag that is supported by the artisan sub-command of your choice. Just write all flags after the name of the class you want to generate, and they will be passed along.

The plugin also provides autocompletion for the options of a command where it makes sense. It also assigns one of the following labels to them:

• Flag - Options that do not accept a value, e.g. make:controller --api
• Parameter - Options that accept a value, e.g. the widely available --env=my-environment
• Class - Options that accept class names, e.g. make:observer --model=MyEloquentModel

Be aware that some flags trigger the cli to expect input (e.g. the --parent option for make:controller if the specified model cannot be found). This cannot be handled correctly at this moment, see #13 for more information.

📝 Stub file support

As Laravel Make Integration is basically only a GUI for php artisan make, if you customized the stub files or prefer Spaties defaults the code generation will just work as expected. No more fiddling with PHPStorm file templates needed and everyone one the team is using the same templates for file creation!

Improvements over the CLI

As we now do not work in the command line anymore, we can take advantage of several things that are not available to a terminal.

🎯 Command Filtering

If you right-click on the "app/Http" folder, you most likely want to generate a Controller, Middleware, Resource or Request. Laravel Make Integration detects this and disables all other commands, in the dropdown to reduce the clutter.

Note: You can always trigger the actions from anywhere by using the double-shift/search anything menu and search for the action. In this case, nothing will be filtered out based on your selection in the Project-view.

If you are a keyboard ninja you can also assign a shortcut to the Run artisan:make-action in the settings:

This opens up a small modal with all available make-commands, that can be filtered by typing:

All commands	Filtered

🤖 Auto filled namespaces

It also pre-fills the namespace for the class to be generated. If you try to generate a new Controller in a A/Deeply/Nested/Namespace/In/Your/Controllers/Folder, the input will already be pre-filled with the right namespace, as you can see in the image below. Now the artisan command to be executed will contain the namespace, so your new class will also be created in the app/Http/Controllers/A/Deeply/Nested/Namespace/In/Your/Controllers/Folder.