1Helping Netbeans/PhpStorm with Autocomplete/Code-hinting
Where Netbeans can’t guess the type/existence of a local variable, you can tell it in a multiline comment:
/* @var $varName TypeName */After this comment (and as long as TypeName is defined in your project/project’s include path), when you start to type $varName, Netbeans will offer to autocomplete it, and will offer TypeName method/property suggestions. If you rename the variable with Ctrl+r (rename refactoring), Netbeans will change the comment, too.
I usually forget this syntax because type comes first in @param declarations.
Update: PhpStorm supports a similar syntax, but reversing the type and variable name:
/* @var TypeName $varName */
Doesn’t work for me netbeans with PHP 7.0.1. Any thing else I should try?