PHPStorm, Silex DI indices code completion

Question

I'm trying PHPStorm and have trouble with its code completion. I write project with Silex framework and faced PHPStorm's lack of code completion for Silex dependency injection container. For example, it doesnt codecomplete $app['twig']-> or $app['db']-> or any other service. The only way solution I've found is to do smth like this

$db = $app['db'];
/** @var $db \Doctrine\DBAL\Connection */
$db->....

And then PHPStorm will do code completion. Services are registered using ServiceProvider interface. Is there a way to make PHPStorm do code completion in such cases without additional vars and comments?

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware, this is currently not possible, however, there is currently work going on to add support for generic factory patterns, see this issue on their issue-tracker:

http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-6027

The PhpStorm developers welcome new feature requests on their issue tracker and are quite responsive. So you may file a feature request

Also, this may be related to your question: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-5304

Answer 2

Here's a plugin for PHPStorm / Intellij IDEA: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7809?pr=

Didn't tried it yet, but looks promising...

Edit: Just gave it a quick shot, and it looks really cool and simple to set up:

• Install the plugin via the IDE plugin manager

• Add the following dependency:

"require": {
    "sorien/silex-pimple-dumper": "~1.0"
}

• Register the provider:

  $app->register(new Sorien\Provider\PimpleDumpProvider());

And you are done.