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'exit'/'die' should be called with parentheses

Reports usages of exit or die without parentheses.

According to PER-CS 3.0 ยง4.7, exit() and die() SHOULD always be called with parentheses, even though PHP technically permits them without.

See PER Coding Style 3.0 (php-fig.org) for details.

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.

PhpExitWithoutParensInspection
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 | Code style | PER-CS 3.0

Inspection ID: PhpExitWithoutParensInspection

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 PhpExitWithoutParensInspection

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

Last modified: 30 June 2026