How to Use Code Hinting in PHPStorm for Codeigniter

PHPStorm doesn't show code hinting for Codeigniter classes by default. We can do it with a little efforts. Follow these simple steps to achieve it:

• Step1: Open a Codeigniter Project in PHPStorm and open a controller class in the editor. For example if we have a Controller class named Events open Events.php form controllers folder in editor (also we have a Model Class Events_Model from which we need to show code hinting inside controller class).
• Step 2: Put a class documentation comment at the top of the class declaration like this with @property :

/**
 * Class Events
 * @property Events_Model $events_model
 */

• Step 3. Now go to any method of the controller class and start typing Model's method calling in Codeigniter's way :

$this->data['events'] = $this->events_model->get_events();

 you can put  @property tags inside comments block  for all the models you have in your Codeigniter project and the hinting for those models' methods will be shown inside the editor.