Hi,

I'm doing some extensive programming against the MapGuide Open Source Web API. As you can see from the graphical class hierarchy (start from MgObject) this is a fairly large extension:
https://mapguide.osgeo.org/documentation.html

I've read about how to add code completion for the SPL library, and understand that I could do this, but I'm not really all that enthusiastic about manually creating the prototype file for this extension.

Does anyone know how I could generate this kind of prototype automatically from the DLL or the C/C++ source code?

Thanks,
Jason

if a library is written in a language other than php, you need to write prototypes yourself or ask library developers for it. I see no other other ways.
Certainly you can create a tool say in shell script or awk or perl and parse C or C++ sources, but it's not easy. I'd recommend you to check how php develerps are parsing php-engine sources for this: http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/functable/ .It's where you'll see some phpXproto.awk files, they are grepping prototypes.

Thanks.

The library that I'm using has quite a few overloaded methods in it.

Are these supported in PhpED? If I define a function multiple times with different sigantures will each of these signatures show up? I know that this isn't valid PHP... can PhpED parse out functions that have been overloaded using the PHP method of overloading (which appears to be the same way that the c++ coders of this extension did it)?

Jason

probably you ask about code completion in PhpED.

This is a valid php until you try to load (include) modules defining functions with the same name.
Even if you load them at once, you can be safe by checking if function is defined. Ever heard of this?
Look for a sample below:
fileA.php:


fileB.php:


although it's not a very clean or recommended way, it's supported in PhpED.

Does PhpED actually parse the prototype files using PHP? I'm not worried about PHP parsing the files, I'm worried about PhpED parsing the files for code completion.

So... if I do something like this, will PhpED identify the multiple overloads for code completion?



If not, it would be great if PhpED had some way of parsing an external (XML?) file instead of php files for class, method, property definitions.

Jason

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish.
In order to parse an XML file, I'd recommend you to consider a way of transforming that XML into another format using XSLT or similar techniques available out there.
PhpED has nothing to do with XMLs (at least at the moment)

I think he means that it would be cool if phpED would be able to get it's autocompletion info for such an extension from an extra file in XML format

Did you ever try to open any cfg file in phped's directory?
I'd recommend you to try func.cfg (yet it only for functions, not for objects)