fllashMessenger() not found in controller says phpStorm but is working

Question

I'm getting an error in phpStorm in the ZF3 controller classes with the message:

Method 'flashMessenger' not found in ...Controller

At the same time it is working like a charm. But I would like this IDE not found error to be removed anyway.

The application was updated to ZF3 and I installed the flash messenger plugin found on Zendframework GitHub

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

The error occurs because controller plugins aren't methods on the class, but classes themselves returned in the controller's __call method.

This means that the PhpStorm 'Undefined method' PHP inspection can't see the method in the class. It can be disabled in the settings under Editor -> Inspections -> PHP, but this will obviously stop the inspection from identifying actual errors as well.

Answer 2

You can add the following above the line to silence the inspection for that one line of code:

/** @noinspection PhpUndefinedMethodInspection */