Finding where a variable or object was declared Netbeans

Question

In Netbeans PHP if you control + mouse1 click on an object or variable it will go to the initial declaration, if it's in the same script.

But is there any way to make it go to the initial declaration if it was made inside a previously included script?

iglvzx · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-17 18:33:44Z

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There may be a better way to do this, but this is my work around:

Netbeans will then list all the occurrences of the variable within your project. From this list, you should be able to find where you initialized it.

Be sure to click the Cancel button, if you do not mean to rename the variable.

For the same results without refactoring, you can also use Edit > Find Usages.

answered Jan 17, 2012 at 18:13

iglvzx

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hi thanks for your reply. Your method is a bit like the 'find usages' option, and would probably work in most instances but I have an enormous framework here with a number of global variables being used hundreds of times across numerous scripts, and working out where each had been instantiated is proving to be problematic.
– Spoonface
Jan 17, 2012 at 18:29
Ah. The Edit > Find Usages option is much simpler than what I suggested, although the result is effectively the same.
– iglvzx
Jan 17, 2012 at 18:32
hmm looks like it's not possible, so I might consider changing IDE's as this is a pretty big issue for me at the moment
– Spoonface
Jan 19, 2012 at 11:35

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