Can you hint return types in PHP 5.2.5?

I think my eclipse's ctrl+clicking links might benefit greatly...

Edit: I'm using eclipse PDT.

Edit 2: I'm very happy with the solution of putting docblocks before functions (and variables) with an @return or @var statement, I've just updated the documentation of my app and now eclipse is showing me what functions are available to what objects!

Awesome.

From stackoverflow

• Short answer: no.

  Long answer: consider adding docblocks with @returns declarations.

  Dean : Nope, docblock didn't help.

  azkotoki : It works for me. What eclipse plugin are you using for php development?

  troelskn : It's @return -- not @returns

  Dean : Strange, after some time it did work. But I didn't see a "building" status bar at the bottom or anything like that. Thanks!

• // [...]
  /**
   * Return the Request object
   *
   * @return Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract
   */
  public function getRequest()
  {
      return $this->_request;
  }
  // [...]
  

  works perfectly with Eclipse PDT. Which plugin do you use?

  MrSnowflake : How do you define the type of objects inside a returned array?

  Stefan Gehrig : I don't think that's possible with current Eclipse PDT or Netbeans.

  Stefan Gehrig : As far as I know at least the PDT team is looking at this issue.

• The only way to hint return type in PHP is to use a good IDE like Eclispe PDT or Zend Studio with standard comment block. PHP simply can n not predict return type because it is dynamically typed language so type checking is done in the run time unlike for the statically typed languages like C#, JAVA and C++.