Class static member accessed via instance

Reports references to static methods and fields via a class instance rather than the class itself.

Even though referring to static members via instance variables is allowed by PHP, this makes the code confusing, as the reader may think that the result of the method depends on the instance.

The quick-fix replaces the instance variable with the class name.

Example:

  class StaticClass {
    public static function someStaticFunction(): int
    {
        return 3;
    }

  }

  $var = new StaticClass
  $var::someStaticFunction();

After the quick-fix is applied:

StaticClass::someStaticFunction()

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.

PhpAccessStaticViaInstanceInspection

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 | General

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 PhpAccessStaticViaInstanceInspection

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

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025