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Extending PDT
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Purpose
There are different purposes for extending PDT. One of them is adding support for specific PHP framework to the IDE features like: Code Assist, Navigation (CTRL + click), Presentation (Outline, PHP Explorer). In this document we'll describe how to achieve these goals using PDT extension points.
Extending
Code Assist
Type inference hinting
Suppose your framework uses the following language structure for object instantiation:
$myObject = ClassRegistry::init('MyObject');
In this case PDT type inference engine is unable to detect the type of $myObject variable, so we'll have to add a specific rule that helps him.
org.eclipse.php.core.goalEvaluatorFactories extension point allows to provide additional rules to the PHP type inference engine. For example: