I've a problem with autocompletion in VSCode: the text editor doesn't show me the suggestions for methods of the external packages.
In this case, i'm trying the Faker package but when I type $faker->addr, I cannot see the method address() in the autocompletion hints.
Do you know how to fix this problem? It's annoying, mostly when you're learning new stuff and the autocompletion helps a lot.
This is an example what I intended.
Faker\Factory::create() looks like this:
/**
* Create a new generator
*
* @param string $locale
* @return Generator
*/
public static function create($locale = self::DEFAULT_LOCALE)
{
$generator = new Generator();
foreach (static::$defaultProviders as $provider) {
$providerClassName = self::getProviderClassname($provider, $locale);
$generator->addProvider(new $providerClassName($generator));
}
return $generator;
}
That means that, unless you have a really cool static analysis engine, all the editor will see is a Faker\Generator instance. And such class does not have any address() method because it's a magic method.
However, the library uses annotations to describe magic properties:
/**
* @property string $address
*/
That means that you can sensibly expect to get, at least, such property.
In my experience the PHP Intelephense is slightly smarter than PHP IntelliSense. I can confirm you that, at least in this case, Intelephense actually suggests $faker->address as property, while IntelliSense doesn't.
Out of curiosity, I tried PhpStorm with fzaninotto/faker and it doesn't recognise the magic method either (not at least out of the box)—it does recognise it as magic property though.