Any way to extend the code-completion data?

[biotech]

Thanks for all this and update.
Honestly, I thought that there would be some editor-like gui or easier way to get this done and turn snips into auto-complete.
Either way, thanks for posting this guide; I will give it a go when I catch some spare time to tweak my tools and post back.
Thanks again, good stuff.

[Gatis]

Honestly, I thought that there would be some editor-like gui or easier way to get this done and turn snips into auto-complete.

Unfortunately there is no GUI way to add new items for auto-complete currently.
But I think it would be good, if we could add some automating here. So that we would not have to update all the PHP libraries once new versions come out ourselves, but customers themselves would be able to do that.

But it seems, this won't be an easy task. For example, generating .xml files for PHP Frameworks (Prado, YII, etc.) that are shipped with official release, is a 2-step process:
1) We use PHPDocumentator to generate documentation for the PHP library;
2) We use our own tool to generate the .xml files from the source files generated in first step;

The first step on my development PC for larger libraries can take up to 30-60 minutes! So, for now we are stuck with updating the libraries ourselves.

[Stringer]

Uh, so in order to use a brand new php library/framework you don't know yet, you will have to dig all the classes/functions manually and put them to those xml files?
Sounds like insane job to me. It also ruins idea of building anything more complex than one single file as your own project. You really should do something little bit more intelligent.

[reacher]

Stringer what do you suggest? You obviously know of something more intelligent?

[Stringer]

@reacher: you'll need to take what ever parser you now have for the active file, and make it do same parsing for all php files listed in the project's library folders. Then make a project wide code explorer and intellisense. For sake of speed, let the parser save the results to some project file instead of continually scanning the folders, pretty much like you now do with the xml files I guess.

And by the way, could you please add "Find all references" context action for variable/function/what ever selected from the text? Like Visual Studio does.

[william070707]

Hi Gatis ,

This is really absolute way to learn. It is really a good way of posting in steps and is useful to those who want to lean. thank you after all posting this stiff