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Re: [pdt-dev] code assist development
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Sjaak Eenhuis
<exceptione@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Currently, pdt doesn't indicate if a certain function parameter is
required or optional. As I understand from http://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/chapter-skeletons.php
you provide this information allready.
So visually indicating what is required and what not is something
which can be accomplished already by the pdt developers.
However, as far as I can see the docbook sources don't contain the
actual default value of such an optional parameter. This would come
in handy, in cases like
string htmlspecialchars ( string $string [, int $quote_style =
ENT_COMPAT [, string $charset [, bool $double_encode = true ]]] )
If I want to use htmlspecialchars with ENT_NOQUOTES I want to see
whether I need to override the default of $quote_style.
I've encoutered this type of issues more than once and this info is
imho useful enough to have it.
I am curious about your opinions.
On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Michael Spector wrote:
The generated PHP language model does contain an indication about
optional parameters in PHPDoc and using parameter initializer (if
you open standard.php you'll see it). The problem is that Code
Assist doesn't really use this information to present it in a fancy
style that you mentioned. We can fix it in the future.
I'm not sure what percentage of PHP documentation with optional
parameters utilizes the <initializer> markup, but somewhere between
80-98%. Your suggestion provides the idea that we should check this
and ensure proper values (and consistency) throughout the PHP manual,
and I'll hack something up to check this soon.
I can't speak of PDT specifics but do want to provide IDE developers
with the most information possible, and this includes default values
for optional parameters. Maybe one day there will be a universal
format for this type information that most/all IDEs will share and
use, with the only difference being how it's presented. Dare to
dream? :)
Regards,
Philip
