Question

I’m looking for a good way to get autocomplete and click-for-reference (whatever that’s called) for libraries in codeigniter working in Zend Studio for Eclipse.

for instance, if i do
$this->load->library(‘dx_auth’);
$this->dx_auth->get_user_id();

zend studio doesn’t know what it is..

There is this sortof hacky way to do it (see below, source), but i feel like there should be a better way of doing it..

Anyone have any ideas?

// All of these are added so I get real auto complete
// I don't have to worry about it causing any problems with deployment
// as this file never gets called as I'm in PHP5 mode

// Core CI libraries
$config = new CI_Config();
$db = new CI_DB_active_record();
$email = new CI_Email();
$form_validation = new CI_Form_validation();
$input = new CI_Input();
$load = new CI_Loader();
$router = new CI_Router();
$session = new CI_Session();
$table = new CI_Table();
$unit = new CI_Unit_test();
$uri = new CI_URI();

Answer 1

Add CI’s library path as an include path to your project.

1. In the PHP Explorer, open your project and right-click on Include Paths
2. Select Configure from the context menu
3. Then in the include path dialog, select the Library tab
4. Click Add External Folder…
5. Browse to a local copy of CI and choose it’s library directory (wherever it keeps those class files)
6. Click Done

Voila, there you go!

I should note that you can also define include paths at the time of project creation.