The plugin is not bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, but it is available from the JetBrains plugin repository
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Once enabled, the plugin is available at the IDE level, that is, you can use it in all your IntelliJ IDEA projects.
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Download the desired tool.
Note
Currently IntelliJ IDEA supports integration with Zend Framework
and Symfony
version 1.1 or higher, Symfony2
,
Yii
, and Composer Dependency Manager
.
- Open the IntelliJ IDEA settings and click Command Line Tool Support.
- In the Command Line Tool Support page, click the Add button. In the Choose Tool to Add dialog box that opens, choose Zend Framework or Symfony.
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In the dialog box that opens, specify the path to the definition file of the chosen tool in the Path to <tool> text box.
Depending on the chosen tool, specify the location of the following file:
- <Zend-Framework-home>/zf.bat for Zend Framework.
- <Symfony-home>/data/bin/symfony for Symfony 1.*.
- <Symfony-home>/app/console for Symfony 2.
- <Composer-home>/composer.phar for Composer
- In the Alias text box, specify the alias to use in calls of tool commands. Accept the default alias or edit it, if necessary.
- To activate the detected command set, select the Enable check box.
- Customize the command set, if necessary.
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In the Show console in area, specify where you want the Input pane for typing commands opened:
- To have the Input pane opened in a pop-up window, choose the Pop-up option.
- To have the Input pane opened as a text box at the bottom of the Command Line Tools Console tool window, choose the Tool window option.
- Open the IntelliJ IDEA settings and click the Command Line Tool Support.
- In the Command Line Tool Support page, click the Add button. In the Choose Tool to Add dialog box that opens, choose Custom Tool
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In the Tool Settings dialog box that opens, specify the following:
- Tool name and location.
- The alias to use in command calls instead of the full path to the tool.
- Brief explanation of the tool functionality.
- When you click OK, IntelliJ IDEA brings you to the Command Line Tool Support page, where the new tool is added to the list of available tool.
- Select the newly created tool and click the Open definition in editor button. In the tool definition .xml file that opens in the editor, define the tool commands.
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In the Show console in area, specify where you want the Input pane for typing commands opened:
- To have the Input pane opened in a pop-up window, choose the Pop-up option.
- To have the Input pane opened as a text box at the bottom of the Command Line Tools Console tool window, choose the Tool window option.
