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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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| 146 | 	private function newItem( array /* of SMWResultArray */ $row ) { | 
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| 147 | |||
| 148 | $item = new Item();  | 
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| 149 | $item->setFormatterCallback( [ $this, 'getFormattedList' ] );  | 
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| 151 | 		foreach ( $row as /* SMWResultArray */ $field ) { | 
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| 152 | $printRequest = $field->getPrintRequest();  | 
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| 153 | $values = [];  | 
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| 154 | |||
| 155 | $label = strtolower( $printRequest->getLabel() );  | 
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| 156 | $dataValue = $field->getNextDataValue();  | 
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| 158 | 			if ( $dataValue === false ) { | 
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| 159 | continue;  | 
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| 160 | }  | 
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| 162 | 			if ( $label === 'date' && $dataValue instanceof TimeValue ) { | 
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| 163 | $item->set( 'year', $dataValue->getYear() );  | 
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| 164 | $item->set( 'month', $dataValue->getMonth() );  | 
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| 165 | 			} elseif ( $label === 'author' || $label === 'authors' ) { | 
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| 166 | $values[] = $dataValue->getShortWikiText();  | 
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| 168 | 				while ( ( /* SMWDataValue */ $dataValue = $field->getNextDataValue() ) !== false ) { | 
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| 169 | $values[] = $dataValue->getShortWikiText();  | 
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| 170 | }  | 
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| 172 | $item->set( 'author', $values );  | 
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| 173 | 			} elseif ( $label === 'editor' || $label === 'editors' ) { | 
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| 174 | $values[] = $dataValue->getShortWikiText();  | 
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| 176 | 				while ( ( /* SMWDataValue */ $dataValue = $field->getNextDataValue() ) !== false ) { | 
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| 177 | $values[] = $dataValue->getShortWikiText();  | 
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| 178 | }  | 
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| 180 | $item->set( 'editor', $values );  | 
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| 181 | 			} else { | 
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| 182 | $item->set( $label, $dataValue->getShortWikiText() );  | 
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| 183 | }  | 
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| 184 | }  | 
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| 186 | return $item;  | 
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| 187 | }  | 
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| 190 | 
This check looks for PHPDoc comments describing methods or function parameters that do not exist on the corresponding method or function.
Consider the following example. The parameter
$italyis not defined by the methodfinale(...).The most likely cause is that the parameter was removed, but the annotation was not.