Looking at

CodeLite/PHPDocComment.cpp

static wxRegEx reVarType2(wxT("@(var|variable)[ \t]+([$]{1}[\a-zA-Z0-9_]*)[ \t]+([\a-zA-Z0-9_]+)"));

looks like it taking the format

@var $variable type

but phpdoc format is

@var type $variable

https://phpdoc.org/docs/latest/references/phpdoc/tags/var.html

This makes it hard for the code completer to work with existing code.