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Bug 269390

Summary: Please show type of variable via ctrl + hover on variable
Product: php Reporter: Christian Lenz <chrizzly>
Component: EditorAssignee: Tomas Mysik <tmysik>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Other   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description Christian Lenz 2016-12-19 10:08:44 UTC 
When I hover over a variable in NetBeans I got the info about the variable, but if the veriable is an instance of an object, I can't see the type of the variable, only when I do a ctrl + space on the variable. In PHPStorm you got the type of the variable when you ctrl + hover on it.


Here is an example:

$model = new User_Models_Article($param1, $param2, $param3);

Output in NetBeans after Ctrl + hover $model:

VARIABLE: $model (ProductsController.php)

Output in PHPStorm after Ctrl + hover $model:

$model: User_Models_Article


So for NetBeans it would be nice to have this output:

VARIABLE: $model: User_Models_Article (ProductsController.php)

maybe the word VARIABLE could be removed, but I don't care.
Comment 1 Christian Lenz 2016-12-19 10:15:37 UTC 
Such less information I got when I Ctrl + hover over the instanciation of User_Models_Article.


Example:

$model = new User_Models_Article($param1, $param2, $param3);

Output in PHPStorm while ctrl + hover User_Models_Article:

public function User_Models_Article($productId, $articleId, $language, $param=false, $otherParam=2): User_Models_Article

Output in NetBeans while ctrl + hover User_Models_Article:

Applications/User/Models/Article.php
__construct

PHPDoc not found


So what I would expect is this:

Applications/User/Models/Article.php

(__construct)
public function User_Models_Article($productId, $articleId, $language, $param=false, $otherParam=2): User_Models_Article

PHPDoc not found.


Or smth like that. I know that the information works better if I use PHPDoc, but often you have code that you share with other developers and you have no process to have documentation etc. So please implement such feature.


Regards

Chris