This method seems to be duplicated in your project.
Duplicated code is one of the most pungent code smells. If you need to duplicate
the same code in three or more different places, we strongly encourage you to
look into extracting the code into a single class or operation.
You can also find more detailed suggestions in the “Code” section of your repository.
The expression $locale of type string|null is loosely compared to false; this is ambiguous if the string can be empty. You might want to explicitly use === null instead.
In PHP, under loose comparison (like ==, or !=, or switch conditions),
values of different types might be equal.
For string values, the empty string '' is a special case, in particular
the following results might be unexpected:
''==false// true''==null// true'ab'==false// false'ab'==null// false// It is often better to use strict comparison''===false// false''===null// false
The return type could not be reliably inferred; please add a @return annotation.
Our type inference engine in quite powerful, but sometimes the code does not
provide enough clues to go by. In these cases we request you to add a @return
annotation as described here.
In PHP it is possible to write to properties without declaring them. For example, the following is perfectly valid PHP code:
Generally, it is a good practice to explictly declare properties to avoid accidental typos and provide IDE auto-completion: