Unnecessary 'else' branch
Reports the else branches in if statements whose bodies always execute a terminating statement such as return or throw. Such branches are redundant and can be safely omitted.
- 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.
PhpUnnecessaryElseBranchInspection
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 PhpUnnecessaryElseBranchInspectionnote
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:
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By default bundled with: | IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2, |