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Enforce PHPDoc comment

Reports the elements without a PHPDoc comment or with a PHPDoc comment only containing the @noinspection tag.

You can use Missing PHPDoc Comment inspection to report only non-fully typed elements.

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.

PhpEnforceDocCommentInspection
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.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | PHP | PHPDoc | Code style

Inspection ID: PhpEnforceDocCommentInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Enforce PHPDoc comment inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore private members

Option ID:

IGNORE_PRIVATE_MEMBERS

Default value:

Not selected
Constant

Option ID:

CHECK_CONSTANT

Default value:

Not selected
Function

Option ID:

CHECK_FUNCTION

Default value:

Selected
Class

Option ID:

CHECK_CLASS

Default value:

Selected
Method

Option ID:

CHECK_METHOD

Default value:

Selected
Property

Option ID:

CHECK_FIELD

Default value:

Not selected
Class constant

Option ID:

CHECK_CLASS_CONSTANT

Default value:

Not selected

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:

//noinspection PhpEnforceDocCommentInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 03 December 2025