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Extension is missing in composer.json

Reports the usages of classes, functions, and constants from the PHP extensions not specified in composer.json. If an extension is listed in the require-dev section of composer.json, the inspection reports the corresponding symbols' usages located outside of the folders marked as test roots.

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.

PhpComposerExtensionStubsInspection
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 | Composer

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Extension is missing in composer.json inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Require PHP bundled extensions

Default value:

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 PhpComposerExtensionStubsInspection

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