Question

Quick one; Netbeans 7.0 for PHP development:

Is there any way to inform NetBeans when class_alias has been used to alias a class, thereby triggering code-completion for the alias?

class Foo{
    public static $hello = 'world';
}

class_alias('Foo', 'Bar');

Bar::$h // triggers code completion for $hello
       ^

I’m still working towards becoming adept with NetBeans, and haven’t really played to much with the config, so I’m hoping there’s some sort of project specific config I can modify.

Thanks in advance folks.

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Interestingly, I can can’t_{See below} instead use namespacing’s use (though my project is otherwise namespace free) to achieve what NetBeans will understand:

class Foo{
    public static $hello = 'world';
}

use \Foo as Bar;

Bar::$h // DOES trigger code completion for $hello
       ^

I don’t know if this is a viable solution though. My Loader class also holds a map of alias => classname and when a given class is auto-loaded, the load method searches the map and aliases if necessary.

This wouldn’t work as hoped, as use is completely unsuited to any sort of dynamic aliasing:

• Can’t be used in any scope other than global, use in a function or method issues a parse error.
• use has no support for dynamic naming; use \{$class} as {$alias}; is illegal.
• Most importantly, use doesn’t carry through file inclusions, thereby rendering it’s usage … well, useless. Pun-tastic.

Answer 1

No, sorry, I don’t think there is.

I have to say class_alias is a new one on me!