Declaring object class (or variable type) in included files

[csnyder]

I'm wondering if there is a way to declare that some variable $foo is
an instance of class myFoo? Either globally for a project, or on a
file by file basis?

Let's say I have two php scripts, controller.php and action.php, as follows:

controller.php:
<?php
$foo = new myFoo();
$foo->load();
include( 'action.php' );
?>

action.php:
<?php
$path = 'bar';
$foo->save( $bar );
?>

Autocomplete and Go-to-declaration works on $foo in controller.php,
but not in action.php, because (presumably) there is no way for
NetBeans to determine that action.php was included by controller.php
and therefore inherits its environment.

In Zend Studio, you can use an ugly, tweaked form of @var to
specifically declare the type or class of a variable, so if action.php
is modified as follows, autocomplete etc will work, because the IDE
now knows that $foo is an instance of myFoo.

<?php
/* @var $foo myFoo */
$path = 'bar';
$foo->save( $bar );
?>

So is there an equivalent hinting method in NetBeans?

For the record, having used Zend's hack for years, I have two suggestions:

1) It would be *ideal* if you could declare a project-wide hint-sheet
for global variables, so that anytime NetBeans sees $foo in a project
file, it can assume that that is an instance of myFoo.

2) If there isn't already a way to do this, I'd suggest: @type type
variable, example @type myFoo $foo.


Chris Snyder
http://chxor.chxo.com/

[Petr Pisl]

Hi Snyder,

see my comments inline.