ALPHA!!!

Snubbed

Create Snubs of Zend Framework 2 projects to make IDE integration much tighter

Installing

• Add "geeh/snubbed": "dev-master" to you composer.json and composer update

Running

• use php vendor/bin/snub.php <application config> <default controller class> - you can leave the parameters blank and it will default to config/application.config.php and Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController which should be good enough for a standard skeleton application based projects
• you'll see the Snubs created in the .ide folder in the root of your project

Using

Controllers

• update your use statement where you import the basic controller in your controllers to use the Snubbed controllers instead - use the as keyword to make it seamless is recommended:

namespace Application\Controller;

use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;

class IndexController extends AbstractActionController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        return new ViewModel();
    }
}

Becomes:

namespace Application\Controller;

use Snub\SnubbedZendMvcControllerAbstractActionController as AbstractActionController;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;

class IndexController extends AbstractActionController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        return new ViewModel();
    }
}

You'll now have code completion in your controllers, including any controller plugins:

Views

Snubbed will also generate view snubs that give you code completion in the view, including your view helpers and view variables for each view. In the .ide/Snub/View directory, you'll find a class_map.php that will tell you which Snub you should use for each view template. You'll see that it's straightforward, and you'll soon be able to predict the filename.

To use the view Snubs, simply include an @var docblock at the beginning of your view file. Assuming your controller is:

class IndexController extends AbstractActionController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        return new ViewModel(
            ['form' => new Form()]
        );
    }
}

Then in your view (in this case view\application\index\index.phtml), simply add the following under an opening <?php tag right at the top of the file:

<?php
/* @var \Snub\View\ApplicationControllerIndexIndexAction $this */
?>

Obviously, you need to replace the Snub class name with the classname that is suitable for this view file. You'll then get code completion in the view, including the view variables that you set in the action:

Note: There are some known problems at the moment that stop variable completion from happening. If, for example, your controller is protected by RBAC or ZfcUser authentication, then Snubbed won't be able to dispatch the controller from the command line, and therefore won't be able to analyise the output.

Helping

At this moment, the code is terrible, untested, but actually works. If you find there are errors in using this then please submit issues here so I can try and get them fixed. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE