How to define a PHP variable as a specific class type before instantiate an object?
php, types
Solution
PHP is loosely typed, so you can't do it like you do in Java. You can provide type hinting for custom classes, though. See this description on PHP.net: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php
Problem
I am creating my own `MVC` framework, and I want it to be very basic, but when I use some `IDE`'s like `Eclipse` or `NetBeans` they tend to give me warnings telling that those variables where not initialized or they do not recognize what type they are, so they do not `autocomplete` the class methods or properties the variable supposed to be of. To override this, I created a PHP file where the the global environment variable is set and a new object is instantiated and then destroyed, so the IDE recognizes it and I can work with it well. But then these classes constructors execute at that time, and it could be dangerous and even slow down my code. So, to override this better, how could I define a variable type to be of a specific class, without instantiate it? Like in `Delphi` we do `var Test = TTest;` and in `Java` we do `String testString;` before `testString = new String;`