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Wrong catch clauses order

Reports the exceptions that are already caught by a preceding exception and the exceptions that are caught twice.

The catch clauses must be ordered from more specific to more generic ones. Otherwise, some exceptions may not be caught by the most specific handler.

See Exceptions (php.net) for details.

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.

PhpWrongCatchClausesOrderInspection
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 | Error handling

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 PhpWrongCatchClausesOrderInspection

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