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Multiple class declarations

Reports the references to classes that have multiple declarations in project files.

Use the options below to customize the inspection:

  • Ignore PHPDoc: if selected, the inspection will not report multiple declarations of classes referenced in PHPDoc blocks.

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.

PhpMultipleClassDeclarationsInspection
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 | Undefined symbols

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Multiple class declarations inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore PHPDoc

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 PhpMultipleClassDeclarationsInspection

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