I am using CodeIgniter and have my own classes that I bounce around.
One in particular is a class that gets instantiated from my models, well actually a class that extends this does. It starts off as below,
/**
* @var CI_Controller
*/
protected static $ci;
/**
* @var CI_DB_active_record
*/
protected static $db;
/**
* @var Module_Model
*/
protected static $model;
protected $dateModified = null;
protected $dateDeleted = null;
protected $dateCreated = null;
/**
* @param stdClass $data
*/
public function __construct(stdClass $data) {
self::$ci =& get_instance();
self::$db = self::$ci->db;
self::$model = self::$ci->{self::$model};
$this->{self::$model->primaryKey} = $data->{self::$model->primaryKey};
$this->dateModified = (self::$model->dateModified === false ? null : $data->{self::$model->dateModified});
$this->dateDeleted = (self::$model->softDelete === false ? null : $data->{self::$model->softDelete});
$this->dateCreated = (self::$model->dateCreated === false ? null : $data->{self::$model->dateCreated});
}
Which works fine, in the class that extends this I simply set the constructor to be:
public function __construct(stdClass $data) {
parent::$model = 'properties';
parent::__construct($data);
}
Which is where the line self::$model = self::$ci->{self::$model}; comes in.
It tells the class what model created is so it can access the model.
This all works great, but the issue I am having is with autocomplete.
Until the above listed line autocomplete works when calling self::$model->... it works based off the Module_Model class (which is a class all my models extend off) due to this docblock:
/**
* @var Module_Model
*/
Now obviously no IDE is going to be smart enough to understand how Code Igniter works, and so I don't expect it to be able to autocomplete based off the model I have specified.
But, I would like it to be able to still autocomplete based off the Module_Model class.
Is there anyway (preferably through docblocks) to convince an IDE that self::$model still contains a reference to Module_Model?
If it matters I am using PHPStorm as my IDE which understands PHPdoc.
