diff --git a/plugin/youcompleteme.vim b/plugin/youcompleteme.vim
index 225f6f7f..38b4e414 100644
--- a/plugin/youcompleteme.vim
+++ b/plugin/youcompleteme.vim
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ let g:ycm_semantic_triggers =
       \   'c' : ['->', '.'],
       \   'objc' : ['->', '.'],
       \   'cpp,objcpp' : ['->', '.', '::'],
-      \   'perl,php' : ['->'],
+      \   'perl' : ['->'],
+      \   'php' : ['->', '::'],
       \   'cs,java,javascript,d,vim,ruby,python,perl6,scala,vb,elixir' : ['.'],
       \   'lua' : ['.', ':'],
       \   'erlang' : [':'],