Comments on: NetBeans + PHP: type hinting

By: Rapha?l Dehousse » Inline autocompletion / type hinting with Eclipse and NetBeans

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:34:27 +0000

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By: sobstel

sobstel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:02:45 +0000

I’ve just played with it a bit and I’ve found a sort of workaround. You can create dummy class (similarly to the following post http://www.mybelovedphp.com/2009/01/27/netbeans-revisited-code-completion-for-code-igniter-ii/) with new definition for factory that will overwrite original one. You omit @return tag there, e.g.

class Magic {
/**
* @param string $name
*/
static public function factory($name){}
}

then when you want to use it write is like that:

$foo = Magic::factory(‘name’);
/* @var $foo Some_Specific_Class */
$foo-> // and auto-copletion works

Note! @var inline comment must be below assignment. It is pretty dirty, but it actually works. Checked in NB 6.7.

By: sobstel

sobstel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:32:32 +0000

It looks like if you don’t set @return on Magic::factory() it will work ok, but it’s not too elegant not to define phpdocs. It would be great if NetBeans always prefer what you define via @var inline comment.

By: Rapha?l Dehousse

Rapha?l Dehousse — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:10:39 +0000

Hello,

Did you find how you did it ?

Thanks !

Cheers,

Rapha?l

By: Darkredz

Darkredz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:05:59 +0000

I am a great NetBeans fan and the IDE have been working really well with DooPHP framework with all the autocomplete and code hinting.
Kudos to Netbeans!

By: Victor Farazdagi

Victor Farazdagi — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:28:53 +0000

Well, I re-checked with clean NetBeans install – and you are right, method described above doesn’t work as expected. I should definitely have tweaked IDE (I am on NB 6.5 btw), so that it behaves differently. Just not sure what that might be. Would review my configuration in depth, and try to figure that out..

By: Rapha?l Dehousse

Rapha?l Dehousse — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:24:33 +0000

Hello,

Are you sure you did not configure sth else to have this ?

Because, I just downloaded Netbeans 6.7 and tried what you’re saying but I did not succeed

Thanks for help !

Cheers,

Rapha?l

By: Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:12:19 +0000

It is a smart editor and I used it a lot for Java work, but it is too heavyweight for my work on php anyway.