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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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| 70 | protected function _getInitialThreads(CurrentUserInterface $User, $order)  | 
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| 71 |     { | 
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| 72 |         Stopwatch::start('Entries->_getInitialThreads() Paginate'); | 
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| 73 |         $categories = $User->getCategories()->getCurrent('read'); | 
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| 74 |         if (empty($categories)) { | 
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| 75 | // no readable categories for user (e.g. no public categories  | 
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| 76 | return [];  | 
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| 77 | }  | 
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| 78 | |||
| 79 | ////! Check DB performance after changing conditions/sorting!  | 
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| 80 | $customFinderOptions = [  | 
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| 81 | 'conditions' => [  | 
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| 82 | 'Entries.category_id IN' => $categories  | 
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| 83 | ],  | 
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| 84 | // @td sanitize input?  | 
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| 85 |             'limit' => Configure::read('Saito.Settings.topics_per_page'), | 
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| 86 | 'order' => $order,  | 
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| 87 | // Performance: Custom counter from categories counter-cache;  | 
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| 88 | // avoids a costly COUNT(*) DB call counting all pages for pagination.  | 
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| 89 |             'counter' => function ($query) use ($categories) { | 
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| 90 |                 $results = $this->Entries->Categories->find('all') | 
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| 91 | ->select(['thread_count'])  | 
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| 92 | ->where(['id IN' => $categories])  | 
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| 93 | ->all();  | 
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| 94 | $count = array_reduce(  | 
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| 95 | $results->toArray(),  | 
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| 96 |                     function ($carry, Entity $entity) { | 
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| 97 |                         return $carry + $entity->get('thread_count'); | 
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| 98 | },  | 
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| 99 | 0  | 
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| 100 | );  | 
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| 102 | return $count;  | 
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| 103 | }  | 
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| 104 | ];  | 
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| 105 | |||
| 106 | $settings = [  | 
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| 107 | 'finder' => ['indexPaginator' => $customFinderOptions],  | 
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| 108 | ];  | 
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| 110 | // use setConfig on Component to not merge but overwrite/set the config  | 
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| 111 |         $this->Paginator->setConfig('whitelist', ['page'], false); | 
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| 112 | $initialThreads = $this->Paginator->paginate($this->Entries, $settings);  | 
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| 114 | $initialThreadsNew = [];  | 
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| 115 |         foreach ($initialThreads as $k => $v) { | 
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| 116 | $initialThreadsNew[$k] = $v['id'];  | 
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| 117 | }  | 
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| 118 |         Stopwatch::stop('Entries->_getInitialThreads() Paginate'); | 
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| 120 | return $initialThreadsNew;  | 
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| 121 | }  | 
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This check looks from parameters that have been defined for a function or method, but which are not used in the method body.