Autocomplete for PHP Objects with classes in PDT/Netbeans?

Question

When I define an object of a class using new like this

$blah = new Whatever();

I get autocomplete for $blah. But how do I do it when I have $blah as a function parameter? Without autocomplete I am incomplete.

Edit: How do I do it if it's in an include and PDT or Netbeans can't figure it out? Is there any way to declare types for variables in PHP?

Answer 1

Method in first comment is called "type hinting", but you should use that wisely. Better solution is phpDoc.

/**
 * Some description of function behaviour.
 *
 * @param Whatever $blah
 */
public function myFunction($blah)
{
    $blah-> 
    // Now $blah is Whatever object, autocompletion will work.
}

You can also use an inline phpDoc comment which does exactly the same thing.

public function myFunction($blah)
{
    /* @var $blah Whatever  */
    $blah-> 
    // Now $blah is Whatever object, autocompletion will work.
}

Answer 2

Try to pass parameter class definition into the function:

function myFunction(Whatever $blah) {
}