One small thing that comes to my mind is that it should be re-used by others so everyone can re-run it later on when further releases of PHP are released.
Thanks for helping out, Roy -----Original Message----- From: pdt-dev-boun...@eclipse.org [mailto:pdt-dev-boun...@eclipse.org] On Behalf Of Philip Olson Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:21 PM To: PDT Developers Cc: Moacir de Oliveira Miranda JĂșnior Subject: Re: [pdt-dev] code assist development On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Michael Spector wrote: > Hi Philip, > > We do a real black magic, when generating stubs for all native PHP > elements. > First of all, we use reflection mechanism for building a multi-array > of all existing elements. Then we refer to the PHPDoc for the > documentation on elements that were found. The problems that we run > into are usually: > > 1. Reflection doesn't contain needed information (class properties, > namespaces, etc...) > 2. PHPDoc XML is not standard in many cases (constant values, etc...) > 3. Missing PHPDoc :) > > You can look at this script for better understanding of what's > happening: > http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.pdt/plugins/org.eclipse.php.core/Resources/language/generate.php?root=Tools_Project&view=markup Greetings Michael, We're looking now, and hope to offer tools to make this easier fairly soon. There are a few headaches like dealing with functions that are both OOP and procedural, and a few others, but overall I think we can provide a cleaner solution that parses generated XML as to not worry about entity replacements. Moacir has been working on an IDE package for PhD. Our build system is named PhD, the system that turns DocBook into magic. What is your policy regarding which extensions get included? It appears to be "all that we can possibly find" which is understandable but maybe an official policy exists. And while running generate.php I stumbled upon a bug in PHP. The get_defined_constants(true) internal constants are labeled as 'Core' instead of 'internal' in PHP 5.3.0. And while some feel 'Core' is better (more consistent, like with Reflection), it appears it'll be changed back to 'internal' so anyway that's that. Regards, Philip _______________________________________________ pdt-dev mailing list pdt-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev _______________________________________________ pdt-dev mailing list pdt-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pdt-dev