How can I get return type in php without @return in comment lines

Question

I am using Yii Framework with phpStorm ide for one of my php project.

$form  = $this->beginWidget(
                'CActiveForm', array(
                    'id' => 'form-id',
                    'enableAjaxValidation' => true,
                    'enableClientValidation' => true,
                )
            );

$form is an instance of CActiveForm after this call because of the first parameter of method. When I type

$form->

in ide it doesn't give parameter or method hints. So I need to tell the ide that $form's type is CActiveForm. I can't use comment @return because method's return type is changing by first parameter dynamically. I tried

$form = (CActiveForm) $this->beginWidget(...

But it didn't work. How can I get hint from the ide in this stiuation.

Answer 1

I don't know your IDE, but the phpDoc way to do this would be using @var:

/** @var $form CActiveForm */
$form = $this->beginWidget(...