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Our favorite PhpStorm Live Templates + Share yours

***TIP tl;dr We've shared our PhpStorm settings (starting with live templates) on a new repository: https://github.com/knpuniversity/phpstorm-settings. What can you add to it?

Live templates? To see one in action, open a file in PhpStorm that has some HTML. Now type just a and hit tab. Boom! This quickly becomes <a href=""></a> with your cursor already waiting inside the quotes for you to type the URL. Hit tab again, and your cursor moves between the tags so you can add text.

***TIP Check out our tutorial - PhpStorm LiveTemplates - to see how to create live templates and use variables.

Most editors have a feature like this, and if you're not leveraging them, you're slowing yourself down. Seriously: taking a few minutes to get into these now could add up to a lot of hours saved in the future. The vim users at KnpLabs love this kind of stuff, and have published their own snippets ( docteurklein, PedroTroller, Einenlum ).

In our tutorial about live templates, we turn formhandle into a snippet that types about 10 lines of form-handling boilerplate code from 10 characters of text. So I started wondering: what are some other awesome live templates we should all be using? On Facebook, someone asked if these were shareable... and of course they are - just like all PhpStorm configuration.

A Repository for Live Templates (and other Settings)

So we created a repository to share useful PhpStorm settings (including live templates of course):

https://github.com/knpuniversity/phpstorm-settings

Feel free to copy from this, or use it all - instructions are on the repository.

The starting list includes:

  • 404Unless (controller): Adds an if statement with a 404
  • action (controller): Builds an action method
  • formhandle (controller): Adds form-handling boiler-plate code
  • formrow (twig): Renders form_row(form.???)
  • formrowfull (twig): Renders the widget, label and errors for a field
  • include (twig): Adds {{ include('???') }}
  • method (controller): Adds @Method annotation
  • path (twig): Adds {{ path('???') }}
  • render (twig): Adds {{ render(controller('???')) }}
  • rendertwig (controller) Adds $this->render('???')
  • repofind (controller) Adds $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('???')->???()
  • route (controller) Adds @Route annotation
  • service (yaml) Adds the basic YAML service definition structure
  • tags (yaml) Adds a tags line to a service

I'm not the first person to do this, but I'm hoping that you'll suggest some more live templates, make these better, and even start adding other things - like code stylings, file templates and colors.

Happy (fast) coding!