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Redundant cast to boolean

Last modified: 03 December 2024

Reports the (bool)/(boolean) casts and boolval() calls that are redundant since casting to bool is performed implicitly.

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PhpUnnecessaryBoolCastInspection
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Inspection Details

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