[NETBEANS-256] ADD code traversal/navigation and code completion support for (Magento) factory methods in PHP

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Next
• Component/s: php - Navigation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Allan Laal
• Created: 08/Jan/18 13:41
• Updated: 02/Sep/19 18:18

Description

example:
$model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

now when I type:
$model->

I then expect it to offer me methods from the class returned by the getModel factory.
I understand that not all factory methods work the same, but there could be a way in NetBeans to define which factory methods return what classes (ideally from the dockblock of the factory method itself)

in the example above it would return an "Mage_Catalog_Model_Product" object - often the class returned by a factory in Magento is as simple as that. Same with other major PHP frameworks.

Also clicking on 'catalog/product' would open up Mage_Catalog_Model_Product

this would make developing in PHP in NetBeans so much more better for the not so rare cases, when we use big properly built (thus highly abstract) frameworks