Class name is not following coding convention

Last modified: Last modified: 18 September 2025

Reports the classes' names that are either too short, too long, or do not follow the specified regular expression pattern. Some coding styles have a special naming convention for classes.

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.

PhpClassNamingConventionInspection
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 | Naming conventions

Use the inspection options to specify minimum/maximum length and the regular expression expected for classes' names. To ignore the names' length, specify 0.

To learn more about regular expressions, refer to the Quick Start guide (regular-expressions.info).

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Class name is not following coding convention inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Pattern

Default value:

[A-Z][A-Za-z\d]*
Min length

Default value:

4
Max length

Default value:

16

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:

note

Actual comment syntax will depend on the code language you are working with

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 2025.2, PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2,