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Netbeans Define Variable Type in Comment

If you use Netbeans for PHP like me (its awesome) and you ever use any kind of function or method to return objects, then you will have noticed that Netbeans' autocompletion doesn't work for these variables.

However, you can make Netbeans work how you expect, by using some special comments.

Check out these two blog stories:

http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_variable_type_in_a

http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/defining_a_variable_type_in

In a nutshell, you can define a variable as being a specific object by using a comment in this format:

PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. $o=getObject('ObjectName');
  2. /* @var  $o ObjectName  */
  3. $o->/*autocomplete kicks in here */

That's a really nice feature I think :)

Oh yeah, they are adding Zend Framework support as well !

http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/zend_framework_support_added

If I ever see these guys, I'm definitely buying them a beer!

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