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Class name is not following coding convention

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

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

Min length

4

Max length

16

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

PhpStorm 2024.2, Qodana for PHP 2024.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

PHP, 242.22893

Last modified: 11 September 2024