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Missing parent call for magic methods

Reports the magic methods that do not call their parent magic method.

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.

PhpMissingParentCallMagicInspection
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 | Probable bugs

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Missing parent call for magic methods inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Check '__destruct' method

Default value:

Selected
Check '__sleep' method

Default value:

Selected
Check '__wakeup' method

Default value:

Selected
Check '__clone' method

Default value:

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 PhpMissingParentCallMagicInspection

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