How to implement "CodeIgniter 2.0" code completion capabilities with Notepad++ ?

Question

How could I make Notepad++ have an intellisense for CodeIgniter 2.0 so that if I press Ctrl + SpaceBar on the keyboard code suggestions would be shown?

Answer 1

Here are the steps:

• Use a User Defined Language derived from the PHP language given that Code Igniter is a PHP Framework.
• If you want more advanced features and feel comfortable at coding, External Lexer is the way to go. It's a kind of specific Plugin mimicking built-in languages features. Install it.

Autocompletion is language based and has distinct API files for each language.

Notepad++ offers two types of auto completion:

• Function Completion (providing a hint based on a list of well known keywords)
• Word Completion (providing hint on words retrieved from the current file)

To trigger them, you must respectively select:

• Edit->Auto-Completion->Function Completion
• Edit->Auto-Completion->Word Completion

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