Code completion for PHP extensions in Zend Studio?

Question

After having installed the HTTP extension from PECL, I expected Zend Studio 6 to recognize the provided HTTP* classes and for code completion to be made available. This is not the case, however. How do I get Zend Studio to recognize classes provided by PHP extensions? Specifcally, I want to be able to use code competition on these classes.

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with Eclipse, but if it works in the same way as Netbeans handles PHP extensions, you'll need to add the relevant stub PHP files to the IDE's search path.

Answer 2

In Eclipse, with which Zend Studio shares code, so it might help, is the "PHP Include Path". "PHP Include Path" is in the project explorer. There you can add the directory where the extensions are. Then Eclipse will scan it and you will be able to code-complete.

I did the same with PhpUnit2.

Answer 3

You can add functions to Studio by putting PHP files with stub function descriptions into special directory. Find this directory in filesystem in a following way: write something like gmdate(), select the name and press F3. You will be taken to one of the prototype files. Note the directory where this file resides (shown on the top and if you hover over the tab). Now you need to create stubs for functions you are missing just like the one you're looking at. You can put them into any file, generally, but I suggest putting them into separate file - like geoip.php - and put this file into that directory. You may also want to do right-click/Show In/PHP Explorer and browse other prototype files if you need examples of how to do it right.