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

try

curl -L -s https://git.io/ide | sh

then relaunch your nvim. You might got code completion, and goto definition features.

*Currently, it's only available for neovim

Answer 2

" Assuming Vim 7 (full version) is installed,
"   adding the following to your ~/.vimrc should work.

filetype plugin on
au FileType php set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP

" You might also find this useful
" PHP Generated Code Highlights (HTML & SQL)                                              

let php_sql_query=1                                                                                        
let php_htmlInStrings=1

" Hope this helps!

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Answer 3

In C++, I run the following to get better context sensitivity:

ctags '--c++-kinds=+p' '--fields=+iaS' '--extra=+q'

It's not perfect, but after ctags adds the extra information to the tags file as specified by the above command vim handles completion better.