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Non-applicable attribute target declaration

Reports the attributes that do not have the appropriate Attribute::TARGET_* flag in their arguments declaration.

See Attributes (php.net) 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.

PhpInapplicableAttributeTargetDeclarationInspection
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 | Attributes

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Non-applicable attribute target declaration inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Allow only 'TARGET_PARAMETER|TARGET_PROPERTY' attributes with promoted properties

Default value:

Not 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 PhpInapplicableAttributeTargetDeclarationInspection

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