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Arithmetic operation with unsupported operands

Reports arithmetic and bitwise expressions with unsupported operands.

Starting with PHP 8.0, using the arithmetic and bitwise operators +, -, *, /, **, %, <<, >>, &, |, ^, ~, ++, -- when one of the operands is an array, resource, or non-overloaded object will result in a TypeError. The only exception is the array + array merge operation, which remains supported.

See PHP's internal test source for the complete list of operations.

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.

PhpArithmeticTypeCheckInspection
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 | Type compatibility

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 PhpArithmeticTypeCheckInspection

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

Last modified: 18 September 2025