Autocomplete

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum.

I am currently checking for myself what kind of FW I am going to use for my next project.
This far Ive been checking Zend 2, Cake 3, Laravel and some smaller FWs.

To my liking and previous experience with CI, CI3 is still damn easy to handle. Thats really nice, especially if you compare it to "younger upstarts" that tend to do a lot of "magic" behind the scenes with ORMs, getters, setters, huge config files and what not.

There is however one huge drawback. The way CI3 loads its components (lets say encryption for example) my IDE does not offer me autocompletion. This far Ive found some kind of hack for Netbeans and a small plugin, which sadly seems to be dropped from developement and seemingly was meant to build CRUD and MVC Skeletons.

It would be really great if autocompletion would not only work with core classes/objects, but with models as well. Currently I need to quickjump into the model and check the syntax of the method I want to use. That is a huge drag and might be a reason for not using CI3.

My search came up with the two solutions above, which arent really solutions. Am I missing some other way ?

My System:
MacOS 10.11
Netbeans 8.0.2


Best Regards,

Marlon.