Vim PHP omni completion

Question

I\'m trying to get PHP autocompletion right in Vim. Right now when I do a $blog = new Blog(); $blog-> and then hit CTRL+X CTRL+O I\'d expect omn

Answer 1

The following works better. Taken from http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/134-exuberant-ctags-with-PHP-in-Vim.html

ctags \
-f ~/.vim/tags \
-h ".php" -R \
--exclude="\.svn" \
--totals=yes \
--tag-relative=yes \
--PHP-kinds=+ivcf \
--regex-PHP='/(abstract)?\s+class\s+([^ ]+)/\2/c/' \
--regex-PHP='/(static|abstract|public|protected|private)\s+function\s+(\&\s+)?([^ (]+)/\3/f/' \
--regex-PHP='/interface\s+([^ ]+)/\1/i/' \
--regex-PHP='/\$([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)/\1/v/' \

Even with the above, there seems to be some issues. e.g. phpcomplete doesn't seem to support methods of instance vars.

$this->objA = new SomeClass();
$this->objA-> #fails

However,

$objA = new SomeClass();
$objA-> #works

After trying to get phpcomplete working for the last few hours my advice to anyone also trying, is to STOP. It doesn't work well and is not worth the trouble.