Variable type hinting in Netbeans (PHP)

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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.

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6 Answers

According to this bug report, the syntax will change in NetBeans 9:

/* @var $variable VarType */    // vdoc1 (legacy syntax)
/** @var VarType $variable */   // vdoc (new syntax)

Also, it's worth mentioning that you can append [] to a class name to indicate an array of objects:

/* @var $foos Foo[] */
$foos = // ...

foreach ($foos as $foo) {
    // $foo will be hinted as Foo here
}

And don't forget your use statement, e.g. use Foo;

user_10947720

For NetBeans IDE 8.2 syntax is like this:

class foobar{
    /** @var string $myvar: optional description here **/
    protected static $myvar;
}

This will provide the type hints properly for static variables at least.

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