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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:
| 1 | <?php | ||
| 34 | private function getCustomerPostData(Customer $customer): array | ||
| 35 |     { | ||
| 36 | $data = [ | ||
| 37 | 'first_name' => $customer->getFirstName(), | ||
| 38 | 'last_name' => $customer->getLastName(), | ||
| 39 | 'email' => $customer->getEmail(), | ||
| 40 | ]; | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 |         if ($customer->getGender()) { | ||
| 43 | $data['gender'] = $customer->getGender(); | ||
| 44 | } | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 |         if ($customer->getMiddleName()) { | ||
| 47 | $data['middle_name'] = $customer->getMiddleName(); | ||
| 48 | } | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 |         if ($customer->getCompanyName()) { | ||
| 51 | $data['company_name'] = $customer->getCompanyName(); | ||
| 52 | } | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 |         if ($customer->getVatNumber()) { | ||
| 55 | $data['vat_number'] = $customer->getVatNumber(); | ||
| 56 | } | ||
| 57 | |||
| 58 |         if ($customer->getPostalcode()) { | ||
| 59 | $data['postalcode'] = $customer->getPostalcode(); | ||
| 60 | } | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 |         if ($customer->getHouseNumber()) { | ||
| 63 | $data['house_number'] = $customer->getHouseNumber(); | ||
| 64 | } | ||
| 65 | |||
| 66 |         if ($customer->getHouseNumberAdd()) { | ||
| 67 | $data['house_number_add'] = $customer->getHouseNumberAdd(); | ||
| 68 | } | ||
| 69 | |||
| 70 |         if ($customer->getStreet()) { | ||
| 71 | $data['street'] = $customer->getStreet(); | ||
| 72 | } | ||
| 73 | |||
| 74 |         if ($customer->getCity()) { | ||
| 75 | $data['city'] = $customer->getCity(); | ||
| 76 | } | ||
| 77 | |||
| 78 |         if ($customer->getCountryCode()) { | ||
| 79 | $data['country_iso2'] = $customer->getCountryCode(); | ||
| 80 | } | ||
| 81 | |||
| 82 |         if ($customer->getLanguage()) { | ||
| 83 | $data['language'] = $customer->getLanguage(); | ||
| 84 | } | ||
| 85 | |||
| 86 |         if ($customer->getTelephone()) { | ||
| 87 | $data['telephone '] = $customer->getTelephone(); | ||
| 88 | } | ||
| 89 | |||
| 90 | return $data; | ||
| 91 | } | ||
| 174 | 
For hinted functions/methods where all return statements with the correct type are only reachable via conditions, ?null? gets implicitly returned which may be incompatible with the hinted type. Let?s take a look at an example: