New user question on intellisense/autocompletion

Hi Melinda,

The intellisense does not appear to be working.  Does that feature need to be enabled?  When I hover over a PHP method I get nothing.

It is enabled by default. If it does not appears automatically, then it can always be invoked manually.

Please show a screenshot with a problem (and maybe some code as well). Based on the description I do not understand what do you expect to see and when.

In any case, few comments:

• To manually invoke code completion: Ctrl+Space (Code | Completion | Basic)
• To manually invoke quick documentation pop up when cursor standing on the function/class/constant name: Ctrl+Q (View | Quick Documentation)
• You say: "PHP Language Level 5.4", but at the same time  PHP Interpreter is very old 5.2.17 (not even 5.3.xx) -- not that this will help with code completion in any way, just saying
• Latest PhpStorm's version available is 5.0.1

Thank you for the reply and sorry so late in responding.  Let me clarify my question.

The issue is NOT autocompletion, and I should NOT have stated that in my title.  The issue is INTELLISENSE.  Meaning when my mouse hovers over a method name like "var_dump" or a METHOD that I've created, I was looking for something like Eclipse has whereby I can hover over a method name of my own making or a Java class or method name and see the description of that method or class and what the parameters are that it is looking for.  Right now I have to stop and open a a browser and go to php.net and find the php method or class that I'm looking for to see what parameters or description is for it.

I don't know that a code screen shot of my mouse over the word "var_dump" or some other PHP method would help.

I hope that my issue is MORE clear.  Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

Message was edited by: Melinda Savoy

Hi Melinda,

View | Quick Documentation (Ctrl+Q)

There is no "documentation on hover" thing -- it needs to be invoked manually (when placing caret at the object (function/variable/class/ect name)). If Quick Documentation popup is pinned (always visible), it can be set to automatically display the documentation for currently active object.

On another hand -- when you hover mouse cursor over function name etc while holding Ctrl pressed, the hint will show you very brief function info (function name & basic parameter info).

If you need help during entering function parameters, you can use "View | Parameter Info" (can only be invoked when typing function parameters -- inside () brackets).

Thanks for the quick reply.  I tried Ctrl+Q (I am assuming that is an uppercase Q) and even trying a lowercase q, I still do NOT get the Quick Documentation that you're talking about.

I'll keep trying.  Again, your time is appreciated.

Regards.

Well, I have no idea what OS you have and what Keymap you are using, so it can be different from my default Windows settings. That's why I gave full command name: "Main Menu | View | Quick Documentation". See online help for more information: http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/viewing-inline-documentation.html

P.S.
I'm talkng about this window (how it looks and what it can display): http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5467642#5467642