else is never necessary and you can simplify the code to work without else

I got a message of PHPMD telling me:

else is never necessary and you can simplify the code to work without else on this portion of code:

if ($settings == null) {
        $settings = new self($arrSettings);
} else {
        $settings->fill($arrSettings);
}
$settings->save();

return $settings;

My question is : How should I avoid else(). The only way I see is duplicating $setting->save() and return.

Any idea?

via Juliatzin del Toro