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Hello, This is (in my opinion), one of the most important features that NetBeans MUST have. Using Doctrine or many many other APIs allow developers to have some methods like : <?php class EntityManager { /** * @return $classname */ public function find($classname) { return new $classname; } } ?> so that when you call $entityManager->find("MyClass"); it would return an instance of MyClass, there's no such thing as @return $classname (or return instance of class that is a string). It's so boring not having the pop-up that shows the available methods from the class we've passed in variables. I know it must be hard, but it's just resolving a string to a class name, and then suggesting the available internal methods and stuff.
I think this cannot be resolved, because you could do a $entityManager->find($_POST['ugly']); There, what's the returned class? (Year, NEVER do such thing, but you get the idea: the name in the call can be dynamic). If you want to get auto-completion in the calling, you should just use the PHPDoc syntax: /* @var $myvar \vendor\namespace\MyClass */ $myvar = $entityManager->find("MyClass); There, NB 8.2 will know that the $myvar variable contains a MyClass instance, and it will provide all required hints. If that suits your needs (after all these years!), tell us so this bug can be closed.