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Needing to check whether the item exists in the array and either add to it or increase the value by the amount.

if(isset($this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId])) {

    $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] += $amount;

}else{

    $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = $amount;

}

I have a feeling this can be simplified.

This method reduces it a bit, as you don't need the else statement or to assign amount twice.

if(!isset($this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId])) {

    $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = 0;

}

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] += $amount;

Something that will work in all versions of PHP:

@$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] += $amount;

The @ (error control operator) will cause PHP to ignore the error caused by the non-existent index, create the element (with an empty value) and then add $amount to it, resulting in a value of $amount (as the empty value gets converted to 0 as a number).

Warning use of the @ operator could potentially make it harder to debug
your code, as it will hide error messages that you may have
needed to see (for example, even if $this doesn't exist, or there is
no object element called _costRemovedByLineItem, PHP will create
them along with the array). See the third case in my example code.

Alternatively in PHP7 you can use the Null Coalescing Operator:

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = ($this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] ?? 0) + $amount;

And in PHP < 7 you can use the ternary operator

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = (isset($this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId]) ? $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] : 0) + $amount;

A shorter example of each:

$amount = 4;

@$a[5] += $amount;

print_r($a);

$b[6] = ($b[6] ?? 0) + $amount;

print_r($b);

@$c->x[5] += $amount;

print_r($c);

$d[3] = (isset($d[3]) ? $d[3] : 0) + $amount;

print_r($d);

Output:

Array ( [5] => 4 ) 

Array ( [6] => 4 )

stdClass Object (

    [x] => Array ( [5] => 4 ) 

)

Array ( [3] => 4 )

Demo on 3v4l.org

Ternary operators!

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = 

    (isset($this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId])) ? 

      $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] + $amount :

      $amount;

One sec... is this actually simpler?

But maybe...

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] ?? 0;

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] += $amount;

This is for PHP 7+ only though. Or if you don't mind E_NOTICEs, from PHP 5.3:

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] = $this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] ?: 0;

$this->_costRemovedByLineItem[$objectId] += $amount;

One sec... this we just make the code harder to understand with not much improved?