Eclipse PDT Intellisense for PHP functions

Question

So the intellisense works for my own variables, methods, etc. but doesn't work for php functions like in_array... I'm just opening a single PHP file instead of creating a project. It works when I create a PHP project and create a php file inside that project. But doesn't work when opening individual php files.

VS.Php for VS2010 has intellisense for php functions when I just open a single php file. I'd like to emulate this functionality in Eclipse. Does anyone know how to make Eclipse PDT show php functions when opening a file?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you tryed netbeans for PHP? I've developed the past 2 years with netbeans+apache+php5+MySQL+MongoDB and used Netbeans all along on Ubuntu machines. The only thing it lacks at the moment is the code completion (intellisense) for the Mongo objects. Other then that it reads your code and complete PHP functions as well. And it's built on top of Eclipse (or at least derived from Eclipse). I think it's everything you're looking for.

Cheers

Answer 2

With Eclipse / Netbeans, you cannot have autocompletion on a single file without a project.

I use Notepad++ : in order to activate autocompletion go to "Settings" > "Preferences" > "Backup/Autocompletion" tab and check the option.