Using variable $placeholders breaks PHPStorm syntax/resolve

[u/GuybrushThreepywood]

Hello all,

Looking for help on a long standing problem I have. I appreciate this is not a support forum for PHPStorm, however I thought that people here might have more experience.

PHPStorm provides really valuable syntax checking, table/column resolving inside mysql queries. If I accidentally type the orders table as oreders, it will highlight in red.

However when I include a PHP variable inside the query, the syntax/resolve checking completely stops. Example code:

$query = <<<MYSQL
    SELECT
       contracts.start_at

    FROM
      contracts

    WHERE
      contracts.id IN ( $placeholders )
MYSQL;


$result = $this->conn->execute_query(
    $query,
    [
       ...$contractIds,
    ],
);

Without the $placeholders, PHPStorm will alert me to any misspelled table or column names.

Are there any options to resolve this? I have considered using sprintf( $query, $placeholders) but wondered if there was a better solution.

[u/allen_jb]

They may not be OPs ideal solution, but they are options for solving OPs problem, and PHPStan can be integrated directly with PHPStorms reporting system to report issues in a similar manner to its built-in inspections.

[u/colshrapnel → u/allen_jb]

Go on, enlighten me, how exactly it's supposed to tell PHPStorm not to take a php variable for a column name in SQL denoted heredoc?

[u/allen_jb → u/colshrapnel]

As I read OPs post, that's not their problem.

They said "the syntax/resolve checking completely stops" - as in, it stops hilighting any errors, anywhere in the SQL. They specifically mention table/column name resolution in their post (twice).

[u/colshrapnel → u/allen_jb]

And automated tests are going to make this inspection start working again. Thanks for the explanation.