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.
A single line is all you need:
/* @var $varName Type_Name */
See this article in the NetBeans PHP Blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_a_variable_type_in
Note: At least, in version 8.2; The key seems to be:
- The single asterisk (
/*instead of/**).- Placing the type after the variable name.
- Having nothing before and after the type-hinting (except white-space, but even that is not allowed when the comment is not in a single line).