Hi,

it would be really cool if the code completion for protected/private members/methods would be possible.

Let us say you have magic __get, __set, __call in your classes and you access a protected members directly via it's name.
In this case, NuSphere doesn't auto complete the name of the member. But fortunately the PHPDoc support still works.

Use case where the code completion doesn't work:

Because mymember is protected, surely it is correct for code completion to not work?

You could make mymember public, then code completion would work.

In general this is correct but for magic setters/getter, as is mentioned it, it's a bit disturbing.

In PHP you CAN access protected/private members, when you define the magic setters/getters.
But you can't use magic getter/setters for public members. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#object.get

Therefore it would be cool to have an option in nusphere settings to allow protected/private member auto completion.
It's really helpful when you have protected/private members that be accessable/writeable through the magic getters/setters.

You mention PHPDoc but do you mean using @method ?



The above works in PhpED plus it also clearly documents that there is a predefined protected/private variable that can be accessed.

If you extend class Test then PhpED does offer mymember in code completion without using @method, because PhpED knows that mymember should be directly accessible:

First a little note.
The @method works more worse than good because it's handled as a method, which it isn't.

Let me exactly explain why i want the auto completion.

I have this (strongly simplified)


As you can see, "$obj->createTime->" offers you a correct code completion list for the methods and members for the DateTime object (this is what already works fine).
But when i just type "$obj->crea" i want a auto completion to write my code faster.

This way i use is really fast for creating new childs of this class without the need of creating a getter/setter for each member.
A public member instead of protected is not possible in my case because many conversations happens in the magic __get/__set which i've removed in this examplecode.
Please let us not talk about my way of coding, if someone try to.

I just wanted to suggest that it would be helpful for some people, like me, with a auto completion - And i just explain why this would be helpful to give the DEV's a reason to think about.

What about this then?

That's what i searched for.
Thank you.