NetBeans for PHP

Code Completion for Namespaces - part I

This is brief overview how to use code completion for namespaced elements in NetBeans 6.8.
Namespaced elements are resolved according  name resolution rules.

See examples for namespace name definitions that are important for resolution rules:

// Fully qualified name
$c = new \my\name\ExampleClass();

// Qualified name
$c = new name\ExampleClass();

// Unqualified name
$c = new ExampleClass();

Now we have 3 ways how to create new instance of class ExampleClass. Let's look how to harness code completion to generate all of them.

Fully qualified name

Simply begin with a namespace separator after new keyword (e.g. new \Exam), choose from the list of proposals and press enter. 

As a result:

Unqualified name

 The same as for fully qualified name - just omit namespace separator at the beginning (e.g. new Exam).

As a result:

Qualified name

Begin with a sub-namespace name (whereas code completion can be used here also ) followed with namespace separator after new keyword (e.g. new name\Exam), choose from the list of proposals and press enter. 

As a result:

As mentioned above, for sub-namespace name can be used code completion too.

For e.g. new name\test\Exam can be used code completion 3 times: name, test, Exam.