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Class can't implement Traversable directly

Reports the classes that are implementing the Traversable interface alone, not as part of Iterator or IteratorAggregate interfaces.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PhpClassImplementsSolelyTraversableInspection
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Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

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The Traversable interface is an internal engine interface; it cannot be implemented in PHP scripts. See The Traversable interface (php.net) for details.

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 PhpClassImplementsSolelyTraversableInspection

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