I am developing Joomla 2.5 templates and modules with Intellij 13 (which should contain all features of PhpStorm as well). If I just create a new project and set the content root to /var/www/joomla then I have the complete Joomla directory in Intellij project and autocomplete works with out any problem.
How ever I would prefer to have only the template or module that I am currently working on in my project and link the joomla installation as an external library. Is that possible?
I have currently set up the file system like this. Joomla is under: /var/www/joomla and my template is stored under ~/Documents/Code/my-template with a symlink in /var/www/joomla/templates:
my-template -> /home/user/Documents/Code/my-template
This way I can have multiple Intellij projects in different windows, each with a different module or template. I have already tried different things but the auto-complete simply wont work.
Is there maybe a best practice article that explains how to setup the project structure in Intellij such that the Joomla libraries are correctly imported?
Try configuring the PHP Include Paths
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/configuring-include-paths.html