Missing visibility
Reports the properties, constants, and methods that are declared without visibility definition.
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.
PhpMissingVisibilityInspection- 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.
According to PSR-12, visibility MUST be defined on:
All properties,
All constants if your project's PHP minimum version supports constant visibilities (PHP 7.1 or later),
All methods.
See PSR-12: Extended Coding Style (php-fig.org) for details.
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, |