'<?php' opening tag should be lowercase
Reports occurrences of the <?php opening tag that are not written entirely in lowercase.
According to PER-CS 3.0 ยง3, the <?php tag MUST always be all lowercase.
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.
PhpLowerCasePhpTagInspection- 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.
Inspection ID: PhpLowerCasePhpTagInspection
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 2026.2, PhpStorm 2026.2, Qodana for JVM 2026.2, Qodana for PHP 2026.2, |