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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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| 118 | public static function compareIdentifiers(array $left, array $right)  | 
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| 119 |     { | 
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| 120 |         if ($left && empty($right)) { | 
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| 121 | return self::LESS_THAN;  | 
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| 122 |         } elseif (empty($left) && $right) { | 
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| 123 | return self::GREATER_THAN;  | 
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| 124 | }  | 
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| 125 | |||
| 126 | $l = $left;  | 
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| 127 | $r = $right;  | 
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| 128 | $x = self::GREATER_THAN;  | 
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| 129 | $y = self::LESS_THAN;  | 
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| 130 | |||
| 131 |         if (count($l) < count($r)) { | 
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| 132 | $l = $right;  | 
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| 133 | $r = $left;  | 
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| 134 | $x = self::LESS_THAN;  | 
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| 135 | $y = self::GREATER_THAN;  | 
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| 136 | }  | 
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| 137 | |||
| 138 |         foreach (array_keys($l) as $i) { | 
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| 139 |             if (!isset($r[$i])) { | 
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| 140 | return $x;  | 
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| 141 | }  | 
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| 142 | |||
| 143 |             if ($l[$i] === $r[$i]) { | 
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| 144 | continue;  | 
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| 145 | }  | 
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| 147 | View Code Duplication |             if (true === ($li = (false != preg_match('/^\d+$/', $l[$i])))) { | 
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| 148 | $l[$i] = intval($l[$i]);  | 
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| 149 | }  | 
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| 151 | View Code Duplication |             if (true === ($ri = (false != preg_match('/^\d+$/', $r[$i])))) { | 
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| 152 | $r[$i] = intval($r[$i]);  | 
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| 153 | }  | 
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| 154 | |||
| 155 |             if ($li && $ri) { | 
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| 156 | return ($l[$i] > $r[$i]) ? $x : $y;  | 
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| 157 |             } elseif (!$li && $ri) { | 
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| 158 | return $x;  | 
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| 159 |             } elseif ($li && !$ri) { | 
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| 160 | return $y;  | 
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| 161 | }  | 
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| 162 | |||
| 163 | $result = strcmp($l[$i], $r[$i]);  | 
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| 164 | |||
| 165 |             if ($result > 0) { | 
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| 166 | return $x;  | 
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| 167 |             } elseif ($result < 0) { | 
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| 168 | return $y;  | 
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| 169 | }  | 
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| 170 | }  | 
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| 172 | return self::EQUAL_TO;  | 
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| 173 | }  | 
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| 174 | }  | 
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| 175 | 
This check marks implicit conversions of arrays to boolean values in a comparison. While in PHP an empty array is considered to be equal (but not identical) to false, this is not always apparent.
Consider making the comparison explicit by using
empty(..)or! empty(...)instead.