Variable type hinting in Netbeans (PHP)

Question

Just curious if there's a way in netbeans to give type hints for regular variables, so that intellisense picks it up. I know you can do it for class properties, function parameters, return types, etc. but I can't figure out how to do it for regular variables. It's something that would really help in situations where you have a method that can return different object types (like a service locator).

ex something like:

/**
 * @var Some_Service $someService
 */
$someService = ServiceLocator::locate('someService');

Where using $someService afterward, netbeans would provide all available methods defined in the class Some_Service.

Answer 1

See this article in the NetBeans PHP Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_a_variable_type_in