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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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| 115 | $provider[] = array( |
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| 116 | array( 'query' => array() ), |
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| 117 | array(), |
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| 118 | false, |
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| 119 | null |
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| 120 | ); |
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| 122 | #1 |
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| 123 | $provider[] = array( |
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| 124 | array( |
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| 125 | 'query-continue-offset' => 3, |
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| 126 | 'query' => array() |
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| 127 | ), |
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| 128 | array(), |
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| 129 | true, |
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| 130 | null |
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| 134 | $provider[] = array( |
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| 135 | array( |
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| 136 | 'query-continue-offset' => 3, |
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| 137 | 'query' => array( |
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| 138 | 'printrequests' => array( |
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| 139 | array( 'label' => 'Category', 'mode' => 0 ) |
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| 140 | ) |
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| 141 | ) |
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| 142 | ), |
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| 143 | array( |
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| 144 | 'printrequests' => array( |
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| 145 | array( 'label' => 'Category', 'mode' => 0 ) |
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| 146 | ) |
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| 147 | ), |
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| 148 | true, |
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| 149 | new DIProperty( '_INST' ) |
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| 153 | $provider[] = array( |
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| 155 | 'query' => array( |
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| 156 | 'printrequests' => array( |
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| 157 | array( 'label' => 'Category', 'mode' => 0 ) |
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| 158 | ), |
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| 159 | 'results' => array() |
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| 160 | ), |
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| 161 | ), |
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| 162 | array( |
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| 163 | 'printrequests' => array( |
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| 164 | array( 'label' => 'Category', 'mode' => 0 ) |
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| 165 | ), |
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| 166 | 'results' => array() |
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| 168 | false, |
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| 169 | new DIProperty( '_INST' ) |
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| 172 | return $provider; |
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Adding an explicit array definition is generally preferable to implicit array definition as it guarantees a stable state of the code.
Let’s take a look at an example:
As you can see in this example, the array
$myArrayis initialized the first time when the foreach loop is entered. You can also see that the value of thebarkey is only written conditionally; thus, its value might result from a previous iteration.This might or might not be intended. To make your intention clear, your code more readible and to avoid accidental bugs, we recommend to add an explicit initialization $myArray = array() either outside or inside the foreach loop.