Missing 'break' statement
Reports the case clauses in switch statements that do not end with a break or a return statement.
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.
PhpMissingBreakStatementInspection- 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.
If a case clause does not end with break or return, its execution can unintentionally fall through the next case.
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, |