Code Completion not working with remote file (with RSE)

Question

What is:

On Host machine:
Windows 7 Eclipse for PHP Developers
Version: Helios Service Release 2

On guest machine: Linux debian squeeze

I wan

Answer 1

Solution:

1) Close Eclipse.

2) Go to project path.

3) Open ".buildpath" with text editor (gedit, VIM, notepad, etc).

4) Add next line after "buildpath" line:

<buildpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.php.core.LANGUAGE"/>

Example:

Before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<buildpath>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path="library"/>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path="public"/>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path="application"/>
</buildpath>

After:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<buildpath>
    <buildpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.php.core.LANGUAGE"/>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path="library"/>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path="public"/>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path="application"/>
</buildpath>

5) Save file and exit!

6) Open Eclipse.

7) WORK!

Answer 2

Autocompletion for the PHP project (classes, functions...):

I found that adding the folowing lines to the .project did solve the autocompletion issue for the classes of the PHP project itself but did not work with native PHP functions:

<nature>org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.jsNature</nature>
<nature>org.eclipse.php.core.PHPNature</nature>

I found a way around it:

Autocompletion for the native PHP functions (print_r()...):

You have to go to your eclipse configuration folder and find the PHP language folder:

In my case: C:\Program Files\EclipseSF2\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\bundles\276\1\.cp\Resources\language\php5.3

Then you can:

• right click at the root of your eclipse project,
• then go to build path
• link source
• browse: and link to this folder...

This allows the autocompletion for native PHP function!

Autocompletion for the Symfony framework:

For people using the Symfony framework you can add to your .project file the following lines:

<buildCommand>
        <name>com.dubture.symfony.core.symfonyBuilder</name>
        <arguments>
        </arguments>
</buildCommand>

Answer 3

When using RemoteSystemExplorer, there is a hidden project "RemoteSystemExplorer" in your workspace.

Close eclipse first. I have edited the .project file there and added the line:

<nature>org.eclipse.php.core.PHPNature</nature>

within the Tag <natures>. And added the file .buildpath with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<buildpath>
    <buildpathentry kind="src" path=""/>
    <buildpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.php.core.LANGUAGE"/>
</buildpath>

Starting eclipse and php autocompletion is working. I have done this workflow with "eclipse Kepler".