Eloquent ORM Code Hinting in PhpStorm

Add in model PHPDoc@mixin

/**
 * Class News
 * @property int $id
 * @property string $created_at
 * @property string $updated_at
 * @mixin \Eloquent
 * @package App
 */
class News extends Model
{

}

In PHPStorm works

For future Googlers, and perhaps OP as well if you are still sticking to Laravel.

The laravel-ide-helper package solves this issue for you quite elegantly, with what I believe is a relatively new feature; generated model PHPDocs.

You can generate a separate file for all PHPDocs with this command:

php artisan ide-helper:models

The generated metadata will look something like this for each class:

namespace App {
/**
 * App\Post
 *
 * @property integer $id
 * @property integer $author_id
 * @property string $title
 * @property string $text
 * @property \Carbon\Carbon $created_at
 * @property \Carbon\Carbon $updated_at
 * @property-read \User $author
 * @property-read \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection|\Comment[] $comments
 */
class Post {}
}

This caused issues for me in PHPStorm however, where the software was complaining about multiple class definitions. Luckily an option is readily available for writing directly to the model files:

php artisan ide-helper:models -W

There are a few more options and settings available if you need to tweak the behavior, but this is the gist of it.