ac-php not working properly

[cjohansson]

If I add this to my .spacemacs in the section (defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()

  (use-package company-php)
  (use-package ac-php
     :config
     (add-hook 'php-mode-hook
               '(lambda ()
                  (add-to-list 'company-backends 'company-ac-php-backend)
                  (setq ac-sources '(ac-source-php)))))

And this to my dotspacemacs-additional-packages

ac-php
company-php

And this to my dotspacemacs-configuration-layers

     (auto-completion :variables
                      auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t
                      auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t
                      auto-completion-enable-sort-by-usage t)
    php

And after creating a ac-php-conf.json file in project root and running ac-php-remake-tags.

Expected result I should get scope-based auto-completion, like namespaces, classes, methods and functions with function descriptions generated from PhpDoc.

Actual result Only name based auto-completion based on current file without function descriptions.

It works without Spacemacs but it doesn't work with Spacemacs.

[TheBB]

Can you confirm whether the company backend is actually in the company-backends list, and whether it works if you call the company backend directly?

[cjohansson]

Do you mean this?

describe-variable:company-backends

...
Value: ((company-dabbrev-code company-gtags company-etags company-keywords :with company-yasnippet)
 (company-files :with company-yasnippet)
 (company-dabbrev :with company-yasnippet))

Original value was 
(company-bbdb company-nxml company-css company-eclim company-semantic company-clang company-xcode company-cmake company-capf company-files
              (company-dabbrev-code company-gtags company-etags company-keywords)
              company-oddmuse company-dabbrev)

Local in buffer Application.php; global value is 
(company-ac-php-backend php-extras-company company-bbdb company-nxml company-css company-eclim company-semantic company-clang company-xcode company-cmake company-capf company-files
                        (company-dabbrev-code company-gtags company-etags company-keywords)
                        company-oddmuse company-dabbrev)

If I manually run company-ac-php-backend I get the error Cannot complete at point

[dbrw]

Any update on this? It would be nice to have PHP layer with PHPdoc based auto completion.

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