Netbeans Autocompletion on PHP how to explicitly manipulate a class [duplicate]

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Autocomplete for PHP Objects with classes in PDT/Netbeans? (2 answers)

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I do know several posts exists on Netbeans and autocompletion, but none seems to give me the answer to the basic problem i'm facing:

if i do so:

use Project\Foo;
$foo = new Foo;
$foo-> //autocompletes properly all the methods

but if do so:

use Project\Foo;
use Project\Bar;

$foo = $bar->getSomeObject();
$foo-> //doesn't show anything

I've been used to Visual Studio and VB .NET where the keyword AS simplifies the IDE to know which type to autocomplete

How can i explicitly inform Netebans autocompletion i'm manipulating a specific class ?

Any help or link to the same related topic would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to make sure of two things to get hinting to work

class Bar {
    /**
     * @return \Foo
     */
    function getSomeObject() {
        return new \Foo();
     }
}

1. Set up your code in a project. This lets Netbeans know where your code can be found
2. Document your code with phpdoc comments. This way, Netbeans has a clear path to follow (in your example, does getSomeObject have an @return declaration?). Netbeans makes this easy. Just type /**<enter> and Netbeans will make the block for you and autocomplete the block as you type