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Undefined property

Reports the references to class properties that are not declared.

The inspection skips the objects of the stdClass or derived types.

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.

PhpUndefinedFieldInspection
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 | Undefined symbols

Inspection ID: PhpUndefinedFieldInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Undefined property inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Notify of access to a property via magic method

Option ID:

NOTIFY_ACCESS_VIA_MAGIC_METHOD

Default value:

Selected
Notify of read access to a dynamic property

Option ID:

NOTIFY_DYNAMIC_READ

Default value:

Selected
Notify on accessing member of mixed, object, stdClass, undefined type, null

Option ID:

WARN_ON_MIXED

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 PhpUndefinedFieldInspection

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