Code completion

1. Start typing. By default, PhpStorm displays the code completion popup automatically as you type. If automatic completion is disabled, press or choose Code | Code Completion | Type-Matching from the main menu.

2. Press or choose Code | Code Completion | Type-Matching from the main menu.

   The most suitable suggestion for the current context is highlighted.

   

1. Type the initial string and do one of the following:

   • Press or choose Code | Code Completion | Cyclic Expand Word to search for matching words before the caret.

   • Press or choose Code | Code Completion | Cyclic Expand Word (Backward) to search for matching words after the caret and in other open files.

   The first suggested value appears, and the prototype is highlighted in the source code.

   

2. Accept the suggestion or hold the key and keep pressing until you find the word you need.

1. Type the opening < and then start typing the tag name. PhpStorm displays the list of tag names appropriate in the current context.

   

   Use the and keys to scroll through the list.

2. Press to accept a selection from the list. If your file is associated with a schema or a DTD, PhpStorm automatically inserts the mandatory attributes according to it.

1. Press to open settings and select Editor | General | Code Completion.

2. Under Machine Learning-Assisted Completion, enable the Sort completion suggestions based on machine learning option and select the languages for which you want to use the ML completion.

   

1. Press to open settings and select Editor | General | Code Completion.

2. Enable the following options:

   • Mark position changes in the completion popup: use the and icons to indicate whether the relevance of a suggestion is increasing or decreasing and therefore the suggestion has moved up or down the suggestion list.

   • Mark the most relevant item in the completion popup: use the icon to indicate the most suitable suggestion on the list.

   The suggestion list will look as follows with the icons marking reordered and the most relevant items.

   

1. Press to open settings and then select Editor | General | Code Completion.

2. • To automatically display the suggestion list, select the Show suggestions as you type checkbox. If the checkbox is cleared, you have to call code completion explicitly by pressing for basic completion or for type-matching completion.

     You can also choose to automatically insert suggestions when there is just one option: select the completion type under Automatically insert single suggestions for.

   • To sort suggestions in the alphabetical order, instead of sorting them by relevance, select the Sort suggestions alphabetically checkbox.

     You can also toggle these modes by clicking or respectively in the lower-right corner of the suggestion list.

   • If you want the word case to be taken into account when suggesting completion options, select Match case and choose whether you want to match case for first letters only, or for all letters.

   • If you want the documentation popup to be displayed automatically for each item in the suggestion list as you scroll it, select the Show documentation popup in option. In the field to the right, specify the delay (in milliseconds), after which the popup should appear.

1. Open the Select Path dialog by choosing Open File on the File menu or by clicking Browse next to the field where a path is required.

2. Make sure that the Path field is visible. If the field is hidden, click the Show path link.

3. Start typing a path. PhpStorm suggests a list where you can quickly find the needed directory.

   

   As you type, the suggestion list shrinks to show the matching paths only.

   You can also press to show the suggestion list.

4. Select the relevant suggestion from the list.

• Narrow down the suggestion list by typing any part of a word (even characters from somewhere in the middle) or invoking code completion after a dot separator or ->.

  PhpStorm displays suggestions containing the characters you've entered, regardless of their position. This makes the use of wildcards unnecessary.

  

  In case of CamelCase or snake_case names, type the initial letters only. PhpStorm automatically recognizes and matches the initial letters.

• You can use the Quick Definition view by pressing when you select an entry in the suggestion list:

  

• You can use the Quick Information view by pressing when you select an entry in the suggestion list:

  

You can view code hierarchy when you've selected an entry from the suggestion list:

• : view type hierarchy

• : view call hierarchy.

• : view method hierarchy.