One thing I really miss is somehow you can "Typecast" an object with the only purpose of getting codecompletion better.

Example.

class baseClass
{
public function doSomething() {}
}

class childClass extends baseClass
{
public function doSomething() {}
}


$objects = array();

$base = new baseClass();
$child = new childClass();

$objects[] = $base;
$objects[] = $child;

// At this time we have an array with objects all of type baseClass or extended classes of baseClass

foreach ($objects as $current)
{
$current-> (This will produce an error, because the editor has no chance of knowing which object is in the array
}

But what if you could do something like this

foreach ($objects as $current)
{
/**
* var baseObject $current
*/
$current->dosomething();
}

That is some sort of PHPdoc syntax that can tell the editor that $current is expected to be of the type baseObject, and because of that the code completion will be able to show you the dosomething function.

I have spend almost an hour today switching between files to make sure that I spell the function names correctly and use the right parameters etc. So to be able to tell the editor what type an variable is would be a life saver.

Do not use some sort of phpdoc syntax but correct phpdoc syntax

this works:


KASI

Cool, but I thought I tried that.

I will give it a try and see if that actually does it.