How to enable Auto Complete in PHPStorm for CakePHP templates

Question

How to enable Auto Complete in PHPStorm for CakePHP templates.

For example $this and its functions, Helpers ... etc in the *.ctp files

Answer 1

Just add a type hint comment on top of your view code:

<?php
/* @var $this \App\View\AppView */

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For the records, in pre-namespaced CakePHP/2.x it used to be:

<?php
/* @var $this View */