Constant reassignment
Reports reassignments of constants.
Since constants cannot be changed, such assignments will have no effect and will emit an E_NOTICE (in PHP 7.4 and earlier) or E_WARNING (in PHP 8.0 and later).
Locating this inspection
- By ID
Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.
PhpConstantReassignmentInspection- Via Settings dialog
Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.
Inspection ID: PhpConstantReassignmentInspection
Suppressing Inspection
You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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