Constant name is not following coding convention
Reports the constants' names that are either too short, too long, or do not follow the specified regular expression pattern. Some coding styles have a special naming convention for constants.
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.
PhpConstantNamingConventionInspection- 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.
Use the inspection options to specify minimum/maximum length and the regular expression expected for constants' names. To ignore the names' length, specify 0.
To learn more about regular expressions, refer to the Quick Start guide (regular-expressions.info).
Inspection options
Here you can find the description of settings available for the Constant name is not following coding convention inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Pattern
Default value:
[A-Z][A-Z_\d]*- Min length
Default value:
5- Max length
Default value:
32
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:
More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:
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By default bundled with: | IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2, |