Variable name is not following coding convention
Reports the variables' 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 variables.
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.
PhpVariableNamingConventionInspection- 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.
Use the inspection options to specify minimum/maximum length and the regular expression expected for variables' 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 Variable name is not following coding convention inspection, and the reference of their default values.
- Pattern
[a-z][_a-z\d]*
- Min length
5
- Max length
16
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By default bundled with: | IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, PhpStorm 2024.3, Qodana for JVM 2024.3, Qodana for PHP 2024.3, |
Can be installed with plugin: | PHP, 243.23126 |