Suppressing Inspections

On this page:

• Introduction
• Suppressing inspections in the editor
• Suppressing inspections from the Inspection Results tool window

Introduction

For some reasons, you may want to partly disable a specific inspection, i.e. ignore some code issues while continuing to detect the other issues with this inspection.

For example, PhpStorm considers some code to be "dead", and you can see that it is true. The inspection is helpful and you do not want to disable it. However, you may want to use this code later and do not want it to be highlighted in the editor or appear in the issue reports.

To do so, PhpStorm allows you to suppress certain inspections for a specific statement, function/method, tag or file. You can do it either in the editor, using the suggestion list or in the Inspection Results tool window when analysing inspection results.

Let's summarize the difference between suppressing and disabling code inspections:

When suppressing an inspection, PhpStorm inserts a special comment that tells the code analysis engine to ignore the issues found by this inspection in the specific piece of code.

When disabling an inspection, you just turn it off so the code analysis engine just ignores the code issues found by this inspection.

Some code inspections (e.g. those detecting errors) cannot be suppressed.

Suppressing inspections in the editor

Suppressing inspections from the Inspection Results tool window