I am a fan of CakePHP Framework and PHPStorm IDE. But since longs times I tried to setup autocomplete of cakephp MVC structure code in PHPStorm but I failed. But from now I can do that and my development is now being more fast. Let’s try it yourself too!!

Inside your Controller inside each script to get Model’s autocomplete suggestion just put the following comments-
(i.e in YoursController.php file just put the following comments at the top)

<?php
/**
 * @property User $User
 */

In the above code User is the model property. So from now you can get the User model’s autocomplete suggestion.

Now inside your View file YourViewFile.ctp you just put the following code-

<?php
/**
 * @var $this View
 */
?>

Here you are going to see all View/Helper’s autocomplete suggestion suppose when you will write $this->Html-> then ctrl+space and you will see all the suggestion there.

I hope it will help all the CakePHP lovers and PHPStorm users a super fast programming environment. Happy coding!!