Symfony plugin prompting to activate on Laravel project

I got a pop-up at the bottom right of PHPStorm when I opened my Laravel project…

6/21/21 9:17 AM Symfony: Enable the Symfony Plugin with auto configuration now, open Project Settings or dismiss further messages

Shouldn’t it be smart enough to read a composer.json file and realize that it’s not Symfony?

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "type": "project",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": [
        "framework",
        "laravel"
    ],
    "license": "MIT",
    "require": {
        "php": "^7.3|^8.0",

I mean, even without a composer.json… the plugin (or PHPStorm) should be smart enough to identify whether it’s Symfony or not.

Any thoughts?

[givihuda]

That doesn’t explain why I get the prompt on custom framework projects (meaning, not a standard framework like Laravel).

Regardless, I discovered that the custom project has a package that includes symfony in vendor… so that explains that at least.

[andrew-demb]

@givihuda Laravel extends some of the Symfony components and it means, that the Symfony plugin can be pretty useful for Laravel projects too.

Here is the logic, how plugin decides to show a notification https://github.com/Haehnchen/idea-php-symfony2-plugin/blob/6556c6fdd8540b9173275b97ac620ba434d34edb/src/main/java/fr/adrienbrault/idea/symfony2plugin/Symfony2ProjectComponent.java#L131-L134