IntelliSense on base class constructor

Posted August 19th, 2008 by marzillo

I am currently trying the editor and have been having a number of problems getting IntelliSense to work in my existing projects. I don't know for sure if it's my code, config or bugs in VS.PHP. To test this I am creating some very simple projects which will become more complex as I go. For now I have found that if I define a class with a __construct() method and then define another class that extends the first but without the __construct() method the IntelliSense does not work for the second class. For example, try the following code.

<?php
/**
* TestA class is for testing VS.PHP.
*/
class TestA
{
  /**
   * The value to store.
   *
   * @var string
   */
  private $_str;
 
  /**
   * Creates a new TestA class
   *
   * @param string The value to store
   *
   * @return void
   */
  public function __construct($str)
  {
    $this->_str = $str;
  }
 
 
  /**
   * This is method getValue
   *
   * @return mixed This is the return value description
   *
   */
  public function getValue()
  {
    return $this->_str;
  }
}

/**
* TestB class is for testing VS.PHP.
*/
class TestB extends TestA
{
  /**
   * This is method getPrefixedValue
   *
   * @param mixed $prefix This is a description
   *
   * @return mixed This is the return value description
   */
  public function getPrefixedValue($prefix)
  {
    return sprintf('%s%s',$prefix,$this->getValue());
  }
}

$MyTest = new TestB('Just a test');
print $MyTest->getPrefixedValue('This is ');
?>

When creating a new instance of TestB there is no IntelliSense. If you hit Ctrl-Space after the right paren you get a list of hundreds of built in php functions and variables but nothing about the actual class. Creating an instance of TestA works fine.

Is this a bug or by design.

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Comments

    That would be a bug. Are you

    On August 20th, 2008 webmaster said:

    That would be a bug. Are you using the latest VS.Php 2.5?

    Yes I am currently on

    On August 22nd, 2008 marzillo said:

    Yes I am currently on version 2.5.3.4907

    It is strange because when I

    On August 22nd, 2008 webmaster said:

    It is strange because when I test it, it works fine.

    I'm wondering what's different on your system.

    BTW, what edition of VS.Php

    On August 22nd, 2008 webmaster said:

    BTW, what edition of VS.Php are you using? 2008, 2005 or SE?

    I am using 2008 but now my

    On September 4th, 2008 marzillo said:

    I am using 2008 but now my trial has expired so I cannot test any more with it.

    Could you please try the

    On September 4th, 2008 webmaster said:

    Could you please try the latest version 2.6?

    http://www.jcxsoftware.com/jcx/vsphp-dev