When using intelphense in a Laravel project with the _ide_helper file present, laravel specific features are not working for completion, type hinting and resolving. We get red underline squiggles for undefined functions.
This setup works perfectly in VSCode with the exact same plugins enabled and configured identically.
to reproduce the issue, you’d need a laravel project, with the _ide_helper file present. Write a method call to a laravel specific function e.g. auth()->user()
You will see that user cannot be resolved.
VS Code: (Version: 1.100.3 (Universal)
Cursor:
Operating System:
Mac OS: Version 15.5 (24F74)
Application:
Cursor: Version: 1.0.0
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 53b99ce608cba35127ae3a050c1738a959750860
Date: 2025-06-04T19:21:22.523Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0
Impact:
There are too many false errors flagged, to make cursor usable for our project, we have a team of 6 and continuing to pay for a subscription is not feasible given the errors.