Statement has empty body

Reports the statements that have empty bodies.

While occasionally useful, such statements are often the result of typos and may cause confusion.

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.

PhpStatementHasEmptyBodyInspection

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 ID: PhpStatementHasEmptyBodyInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Statement has empty body inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Comments count as content

Option ID:

myCommentsCountAsContent

Default value:

Not selected

Ignore 'while' loop without body

Option ID:

myIgnoreWhileWithoutBody

Default value:

Not selected

Ignore 'for' loop without body

Option ID:

myIgnoreForWithoutBody

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 PhpStatementHasEmptyBodyInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, PhpStorm 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3, Qodana for PHP 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025