Khola Janala

I had been longing for code completion for CodeIgniter with NetBeans for a long time. Finally got a very simple solution which I tested with NetBeans 6.7. It works for

• All CodeIgniter system libraries
• Own model functions
• Own library functions
• Helper functions

Basic Autocomplete :
To get autocomplete feature for basic CodeIgniter(1.7) functions ONLY just download this file(ci_autocomplete.php) and copy it in your netbeans project directory nbproject.

Basic CI autocomplete

Advanced autocomplete:
For more advanced autocomplete feature like getting the list of model functions, your own library functions, you need to add

@property Your_Model $model_object_name

in the file ci_autocomplete.php( that you copied in nbproject). For example :

* @property Buyer_Model $buyer_model

Then in any controller if you write $this -> buyer_model -> …. the functions list will automatically popup.

Advanced autocomplete

Finally, to make every thing simple I just have written a simple script(autocomplete_script.php), can download from here, that will automatically traverse all the system libraries, your application libraries and models directory and list all class names. What you need is to

• Run the script
• Copy whole output
• Paste it in a file and keep it in nbproject

Limitations:

• If you extend a library like MY_DB_mysql_driver it does not work
• You have to run my script(autocomplete_script.php autocomplete function) from a codeigniter controller
• In my script(autocomplete_script.php) I assumed that model file name and class name same and all has _model as suffix(user_model, buyer_model) etc

Edit:
To make everything available for Models just need to add some properties after the Controller class in same fashion. I have updated my ci_autocomplete.php file accordingly. To see how all things work together you can see my autocomplete_all.php in the zip file.

For Helpers autocomplete:
You should automatically get the hint for helper functions available in your project. If you don’t get the hint then try tools -> options -> php -> Global Include Path -> add Folder -> your_system_folder.
Thats all !

Happy Coding with NetBeans and CodeIgniter