Ctrl + click behaviour on smarty tpl path Follow

Hi there,

Usually such navigation is provided by plugins (e.g. Laravel plugin does it for methods that are used to call Blade view files; Symfony plugin does similar stuff for Symfony/Twig files etc).

For Smarty templates, Smarty plugin does not provide this (it only offers syntax/completion stuff that is inside actual Smarty templates).

Few ideas:

• Find a plugin that can interpret any sting and treat it as a file path. There was one which I have tried few years ago (Navigate From Literal), but it got broken/no longer maintained for quite long time now. See if File Path Autocomplete plugin will do any good (nah, it helps with completion but not navigation...).
• Inject File Reference "language" into such string (so IDE treats it as file path -- must have at least 3 symbols in a string; place caret inside and invoke Quick Fix menu (Alt+Enter); choose appropriate option). This has be done manually for each place (special PHPDoc-like comment /** @lang XXX */ does not support FileReference -- see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-139705).. but as you would imaging it's not practical (both manual or via comment). I personally do not know how to inject this for all $smarty->display() instances automatically, but check PHP Toolbox plugin -- it can do quite a lot of things and this might be possible there (my impression)
• Just select the "dir/myTpl.tpl" bit and then hit Ctrl+Shift+N (or whatever you have got for "Navigate | File") -- it will search for that file as if you have typed it there -- better than nothing.
• Write your own plugin that will associate FileReference with $smarty->template() calls...

There is a very similar request on our tracker already:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-2345

You may notice that it is quite old and somewhat abandoned but we have decided to re-open it after a discussion.