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Small methods make your code easier to understand, in particular if combined with a good name. Besides, if your method is small, finding a good name is usually much easier.
For example, if you find yourself adding comments to a method's body, this is usually a good sign to extract the commented part to a new method, and use the comment as a starting point when coming up with a good name for this new method.
Commonly applied refactorings include:
If many parameters/temporary variables are present:
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| 57 | public static function truncateHtml($text, $length = 100, $ending = '...', $exact = false, $considerHtml = true)  | 
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| 58 |     { | 
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| 59 |         if ($considerHtml) { | 
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| 60 | // if the plain text is shorter than the maximum length, return the whole text  | 
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| 61 |             if (mb_strlen(preg_replace('/<.*?' . '>/', '', $text)) <= $length) { | 
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| 62 | return $text;  | 
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| 63 | }  | 
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| 64 | // splits all html-tags to scanable lines  | 
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| 65 |             preg_match_all('/(<.+?' . '>)?([^<>]*)/s', $text, $lines, PREG_SET_ORDER); | 
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| 66 | $total_length = mb_strlen($ending);  | 
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| 67 | $open_tags = [];  | 
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| 68 | $truncate = '';  | 
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| 69 |             foreach ($lines as $line_matchings) { | 
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| 70 | // if there is any html-tag in this line, handle it and add it (uncounted) to the output  | 
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| 71 |                 if (!empty($line_matchings[1])) { | 
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| 72 | // if it's an "empty element" with or without xhtml-conform closing slash  | 
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| 73 |                     if (preg_match('/^<(\s*.+?\/\s*|\s*(img|br|input|hr|area|base|basefont|col|frame|isindex|link|meta|param)(\s.+?)?)>$/is', $line_matchings[1])) { | 
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| 74 | // do nothing  | 
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| 75 | // if tag is a closing tag  | 
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| 76 |                     } elseif (preg_match('/^<\s*\/([^\s]+?)\s*>$/s', $line_matchings[1], $tag_matchings)) { | 
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| 77 | // delete tag from $open_tags list  | 
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| 78 | $pos = array_search($tag_matchings[1], $open_tags, true);  | 
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| 79 |                         if (false !== $pos) { | 
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| 80 | unset($open_tags[$pos]);  | 
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| 81 | }  | 
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| 82 | // if tag is an opening tag  | 
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| 83 |                     } elseif (preg_match('/^<\s*([^\s>!]+).*?' . '>$/s', $line_matchings[1], $tag_matchings)) { | 
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| 84 | // add tag to the beginning of $open_tags list  | 
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| 85 | array_unshift($open_tags, mb_strtolower($tag_matchings[1]));  | 
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| 86 | }  | 
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| 87 | // add html-tag to $truncate'd text  | 
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| 88 | $truncate .= $line_matchings[1];  | 
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| 89 | }  | 
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| 90 | // calculate the length of the plain text part of the line; handle entities as one character  | 
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| 91 |                 $content_length = mb_strlen(preg_replace('/&[0-9a-z]{2,8};|&#[0-9]{1,7};|[0-9a-f]{1,6};/i', ' ', $line_matchings[2])); | 
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| 92 |                 if ($total_length + $content_length > $length) { | 
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| 93 | // the number of characters which are left  | 
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| 94 | $left = $length - $total_length;  | 
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| 95 | $entities_length = 0;  | 
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| 96 | // search for html entities  | 
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| 97 |                     if (preg_match_all('/&[0-9a-z]{2,8};|&#[0-9]{1,7};|[0-9a-f]{1,6};/i', $line_matchings[2], $entities, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE)) { | 
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| 98 | // calculate the real length of all entities in the legal range  | 
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| 99 |                         foreach ($entities[0] as $entity) { | 
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| 100 |                             if ($left >= $entity[1] + 1 - $entities_length) { | 
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| 101 | $left--;  | 
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| 102 | $entities_length += mb_strlen($entity[0]);  | 
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| 103 |                             } else { | 
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| 104 | // no more characters left  | 
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| 105 | break;  | 
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| 106 | }  | 
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| 107 | }  | 
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| 108 | }  | 
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| 109 | $truncate .= mb_substr($line_matchings[2], 0, $left + $entities_length);  | 
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| 110 | // maximum lenght is reached, so get off the loop  | 
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| 111 | break;  | 
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| 112 | }  | 
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| 113 | $truncate .= $line_matchings[2];  | 
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| 114 | $total_length += $content_length;  | 
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| 115 | |||
| 116 | // if the maximum length is reached, get off the loop  | 
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| 117 |                 if ($total_length >= $length) { | 
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| 118 | break;  | 
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| 119 | }  | 
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| 120 | }  | 
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| 121 |         } else { | 
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| 122 |             if (mb_strlen($text) <= $length) { | 
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| 123 | return $text;  | 
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| 124 | }  | 
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| 125 | $truncate = mb_substr($text, 0, $length - mb_strlen($ending));  | 
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| 126 | }  | 
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| 127 | // if the words shouldn't be cut in the middle...  | 
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| 128 |         if (!$exact) { | 
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| 129 | // ...search the last occurance of a space...  | 
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| 130 | $spacepos = mb_strrpos($truncate, ' ');  | 
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| 131 |             if (isset($spacepos)) { | 
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| 132 | // ...and cut the text in this position  | 
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| 133 | $truncate = mb_substr($truncate, 0, $spacepos);  | 
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| 134 | }  | 
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| 135 | }  | 
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| 136 | // add the defined ending to the text  | 
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| 137 | $truncate .= $ending;  | 
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| 138 |         if ($considerHtml) { | 
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| 139 | // close all unclosed html-tags  | 
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| 140 |             foreach ($open_tags as $tag) { | 
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| 141 | $truncate .= '</' . $tag . '>';  | 
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| 142 | }  | 
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| 143 | }  | 
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| 145 | return $truncate;  | 
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| 146 | }  | 
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There are different options of fixing this problem.
If you want to be on the safe side, you can add an additional type-check:
If you are sure that the expression is traversable, you might want to add a doc comment cast to improve IDE auto-completion and static analysis:
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