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Implicitly marking parameter as nullable is deprecated

Reports deprecated usage of an implicitly nullable parameter type.

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PhpDeprecatedImplicitlyNullableParameterInspection
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Starting from PHP 8.4, usage of null as a default value for a parameter without declaring null in the type declaration is deprecated.

See Deprecate implicitly nullable parameter types 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 PhpDeprecatedImplicitlyNullableParameterInspection

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