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FYI The NetBeans' complain is correct - if the "root" folder is your Source Files folder then all subdirectories are automatically parsed by NetBeans.

(In reply to comment #0)
>   Path 'XXX/lib' is already part of project.

As I wrote above, that is true.

> This was possible with versions of NetBeans prior to 7.2 .

That was a bug.

> It is annoying because the auto-complete does not work for files in lib. E.g.
> 
> require 'app1/controller/MyController.php';

So, the code completion does not work for the filesystem paths? Or the code completion does not work for the MyController fields and methods?

Please reopen this issue and tell us.

Thanks.

Here is what's happening to me. I have a Symfony2 project with the following directory structure:

root/
  src/  # my source code
  web/  # document root
  ...
  vendor/  # third party software

My source folder is root/, but I have added vendor/ to the ignored folders list, for two reasons:

1) I don't want results from vendor/ to come up when I do a search or open.
2) vendor/ is very large and Netbeans will never stop scanning if it is included.

But, I do want code-completion for the libraries in vendor/. Now that is no longer possible.

Ignored folders means that these folders are:
- not visible in Projects view,
- ignored by the editor (not scanned but also not offered in code completion etc.).

Thanks for reporting.

I've logged a new enhancement request to deal with the issue I'm having:

http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221193

The case in the original report is non-obvious, though perfectly valid.

There is much more simple scenario — consider the following project structure:

root/
  lib/
    library.php
  controller/
    about.php
  front.php
  

Before Netbeans 7.2 I added root folder to include path and could use include '' and include_once '' path completion for lib/* not only in my front.php, but in lib/library.php and controller/about.php also. Now this is impossible. Also I can't Ctrl+click on file path in my controller/about.php:
  include 'lib/library.php';

Fortunately, editing include.path in project.properties still works perfectly, which is a workaround.

(In reply to comment #6)
> The case in the original report is non-obvious, though perfectly valid.
> 
> There is much more simple scenario — consider the following project structure:
> 
> root/
>   lib/
>     library.php
>   controller/
>     about.php
>   front.php
> 
> 
> Before Netbeans 7.2 I added root folder to include path and could use include
> '' and include_once '' path completion for lib/* not only in my front.php, but
> in lib/library.php and controller/about.php also. Now this is impossible. Also
> I can't Ctrl+click on file path in my controller/about.php:
>   include 'lib/library.php';

Just tried it in the development version of NetBeans and it works as expected - you can complete any path from your project (sorry, it does not make sense to put your project files to the include path of the same project; this already NetBeans does, in fact).

From the reason above, closing back as INVALID. Please reopen and attach a sample project where Source Files are not on Include Path and any code completion for any project file does not work.

Thanks for reporting.

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