Handle PHPDoc dynamic type

matuniverso

Laravel has a cache() helper that accepts params dynamically via func_get_args() but PHP tools triggers a warning because of the @param dynamic typing. See below

Warning:

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JakubMisek

matuniverso thank you for pointing this out!

Is it correct to use dynamic in doc comments? I couldn't find any information on this. Although, we should just make it working I guess ...

JakubMisek

matuniverso we're preparing pre-release that recognizes dynamic types and treats them as mixed.

thank you!

KrisReeves

I was just looking for how to deal with something similar. I work on a lot of WordPress sites, so I wind up with some global variables that don't have sane type hints. For example, I get a $data variable that's type-hinted as str|int, but it contains an array -- so I get warnings about it.

Is there some way to declare/override the type of a global variable? Something like TypeScript's "as" keyword?

JakubMisek

KrisReeves You can specify the type with a doc comment:

/** @var array $a */
echo $a[123]; // $a is treated as `array` now

or type check it

if (is_array($a)) echo $a[123];