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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:15 am

Hi there

I've looked around on this forum and google for a way to do type hinting with arrays but can't find any examples.

I have an array in class A which is an array of class B objects:

Code:

class A
{
$myArray = array();
}

class B
{
}

I could like to do type hinting so that if I do....

Code:

$a->myArray[0]->

...I get good code insight. My own thoughts would be something like:

Code:

class A
{
/**
* @var Array[ B ]
*/
$myArray = array();
}

But that doesn't work. Does anyone know if it can be done?

Andrew

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:42 am

I think the correct format is @var array([<keytype>=>]<valuetype>) but I doubt PhpED has support for this. In any case, I never tried it.

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:49 am

Thanks Blizz,

I tried that but it didn't work unfortunately.

PhpED team - can we make this a feature request?

Andrew

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:42 am

Would be nice if we could get this included with PhpED.

Although we can still do things like this as a decent enough workaround if we have an array of objects:

Code:

foreach ($foo as /** @var DateTime */ $bar) {

Much better than the alternative hack that I had to use in Zend Studio:

Code:

foreach ($foo as $bar) { if (0) $bar = new DateTime();

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:23 am

Did the first option not work for you in Zend Studio? I have a Zend Studio version that I use every now and again, but it was the last version before the release Zend Studio for Eclipse, so it's a little different.

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:48 pm

This would be a very very handy feature

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:40 pm