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Parameter's name changed during inheritance

Reports the methods' parameters whose names differ from the same parameters defined in parent methods. Starting with PHP 8.0, such code can cause runtime errors.

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.

PhpParameterNameChangedDuringInheritanceInspection
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 | General

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Parameter's name changed during inheritance inspection, and the reference of their default values.

PHP 8.0 Severity

Default value:

Warning

Other available settings:

  • Error

  • Weak Warning

  • Server Problem

  • Grammar Error

  • Typo

  • Consideration

  • Information

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 PhpParameterNameChangedDuringInheritanceInspection

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