implement cast static method.

[Carlos Villaronga]

Hi everyone,

Recently I've been implementing a public static cast method in FirePHP class for IDE autocomplete and support, maybe someone could use this idea too.

  /**
   * return a instance of FirePHP for IDE support
   *
   * @param object
   * @return FirePHP
   */
  public static function cast(FirePHP $object) {
        return $object;
  }  

[Christoph Dorn]

What does this do?

[DrSlump]

I assume it just helps to force the IDE into knowing that calling the static method will always return a FirePHP object, so that autocompletion for its methods works.

[cvillaronga]

Yes  DrSlump,

It's only for IDE helps, and It's very useful.