Now that we’ve navigated to a function definition, what about navigating to a class definition. Regardless of which approach you take, if PhpStorm’s index is up to date, it will move you to the function’s definition, where you can find out all that you need. You may end up, inadvertently, navigating to the wrong place. Taking this approach will have PhpStorm find any definition that matches the criteria you supply. Note: With this approach is that you will have to ensure that the option you pick from the matching list is the one that you want to view. Regardless of whether you’re in a segment of code that makes a call to the method, or have no files open, use the keyboard shortcut alt+cmd+o or alt+ctrl+o which will open a mini popup, where you can enter the function’s name (or symbol name). Then there’s a third way, one that I’m a huge fan of.

In a segment of code which makes a call to the function, move the mouse over the function call, and either cmd+click it on a Mac or ctrl+click it on Windows or Linux (assuming that you’re using the standard keyboard mappings).Īlternatively, you can place the cursor somewhere in the function’s name and use the keyboard shortcut cmd+b (Mac) or ctrl+b (Windows/Linux). Navigate to a function can be performed in several different ways.įirstly, let’s see how to do it with the mouse. Navigating to a function is a very handy thing to do, especially if we’re either not intimately familiar with the function, or are only using it for the first time well that, and if the documentation is rather light on - even non-existent. For right now, let’s get started seeing how to navigate to a function definition. In addition to these, I’m going to show you another kind of navigation, the “show usages” navigation. Whilst there are a range of other navigation types on offer, such as navigating to the previous or next file, type declaration, or Emmet edit point, these are the ones that I do on a regular basis.

Specifically, we’re going to see how to perform the following code navigation: In this tutorial, I’m going to show you a range of ways in which PhpStorm does so, minimising the effort required by us. If there’s one thing that we as developers to do on a regular basis it’s navigate through code.

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