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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 function update($previousVersion = false) { | 
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| 119 | $ret = true;  | 
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| 120 | |||
| 121 | 			if (!$previousVersion) { | 
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| 122 | $previousVersion = '0.0.1';  | 
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| 123 | }  | 
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| 124 | |||
| 125 | // less than 1.0.2  | 
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| 126 | 			if ($ret && version_compare($previousVersion, '1.0.2', '<')) { | 
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| 127 | $ret = FieldEntry_Relationship::update_102();  | 
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| 128 | }  | 
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| 129 | |||
| 130 | // less than 1.0.3  | 
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| 131 | 			if ($ret && version_compare($previousVersion, '1.0.3', '<')) { | 
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| 132 | $ret = FieldEntry_Relationship::update_103();  | 
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| 133 | }  | 
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| 134 | |||
| 135 | // less than 2.0.0.beta5  | 
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| 136 | 			if ($ret && version_compare($previousVersion, '2.0.0.beta5', '<')) { | 
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| 137 | $ret = FieldEntry_Relationship::update_200();  | 
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| 138 | }  | 
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| 139 | |||
| 140 | // less than 2.0.0.beta6  | 
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| 141 | 			if ($ret && version_compare($previousVersion, '2.0.0.beta6', '<')) { | 
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| 142 | $ret = FieldReverse_Relationship::update_200();  | 
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| 143 | }  | 
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| 144 | |||
| 145 | // less than 2.0.0.beta8  | 
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| 146 | 			if ($ret && version_compare($previousVersion, '2.0.0.beta8', '<')) { | 
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| 147 | $ret = FieldEntry_Relationship::update_2008();  | 
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| 148 | }  | 
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| 149 | |||
| 150 | // less than 2.1.0  | 
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| 151 | 			if ($ret && version_compare($previousVersion, '2.1.0', '<')) { | 
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| 152 | $ret = FieldReverse_Relationship::update_210();  | 
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| 153 | }  | 
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| 154 | |||
| 155 | return $ret;  | 
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| 156 | }  | 
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| 157 | |||
| 165 | }  | 
            
In PHP, under loose comparison (like
==, or!=, orswitchconditions), values of different types might be equal.For
stringvalues, the empty string''is a special case, in particular the following results might be unexpected: