PHP: type hint for '$this' and other variables in phpFramework::view files ? (Netbeans)

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EDIT: Oops, I found the answer in one of the "similar" questionsw. Somebody please delete this question. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1798477/variable-type-hinting-in-netbeans-php)

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In php frameworks, in the views, $this refers to the controller object. But netbeans doesn't know this (I am guessing neither do other IDEs), so when I hit Ctrl + Space, the code completion doesnt work (says No Sugestions).

Is there some trick, or phpdoc directive that can tell the IDE the types of a variable that isn't declared in the current file (and there is no "include" or require_once either, because the php framework takes care of that by convention, so no explicit include is made).

Also in php frameworks there are other variables besides $this in the view.php files, but putting on the top of the file a php doc for them doesn't seem to do anything either.

Answer 1

Eclipse has method discovery, you should look into the PHP specialised versions of that - something like Aptana, or Zend Studio.