Deprecated Standard Library call

Reports the calls to Standard PHP Library functions that are deprecated starting from PHP 8.1.

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PhpDeprecatedStdLibCallInspection

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The following calls are reported:

key(), current(), next(), prev(), and reset() calls with objects as arguments.
mb_check_encoding() calls without arguments.
get_class(), get_parent_class() and get_called_class() calls without arguments.
IntlCalendar::roll() calls with a Boolean passed as the $value argument.
ctype_*() calls with non-string arguments.

See PHP RFC: Deprecations for PHP 8.1 for details.

Inspection ID: PhpDeprecatedStdLibCallInspection

Suppressing Inspection

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//noinspection PhpDeprecatedStdLibCallInspection

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Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, PhpStorm 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3, Qodana for PHP 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025