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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 |
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| 14 | public function sidebar() |
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| 15 | { |
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| 16 | $this->loadModel('BlogCategories'); |
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| 17 | $this->loadModel('BlogArticles'); |
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| 18 | |||
| 19 | $articleSearch = $this->BlogArticles->newEntity($this->request->data); |
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| 20 | |||
| 21 | //Select all Categories. |
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| 22 | $categories = $this->BlogCategories |
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| 23 | ->find() |
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| 24 | ->select([ |
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| 25 | 'id', |
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| 26 | 'title', |
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| 27 | 'article_count' |
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| 28 | ]) |
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| 29 | ->all(); |
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| 30 | |||
| 31 | //Select featured article. |
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| 32 | $featured = $this->BlogArticles |
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| 33 | ->find() |
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| 34 | ->select([ |
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| 35 | 'id', |
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| 36 | 'title', |
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| 37 | 'created', |
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| 38 | 'comment_count' |
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| 39 | ]) |
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| 40 | ->contain([ |
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| 41 | 'Users' => function ($q) { |
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| 42 | return $q->find('short'); |
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| 43 | } |
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| 44 | ]) |
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| 45 | ->where([ |
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| 46 | 'BlogArticles.id !=' => ($this->request->id) ? $this->request->id : 0, |
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| 47 | 'BlogArticles.is_display' => 1 |
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| 48 | ]) |
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| 49 | ->order([ |
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| 50 | 'BlogArticles.created' => 'desc' |
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| 51 | ]) |
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| 52 | ->first(); |
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| 53 | |||
| 54 | //Select all articles and group them by monthly. |
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| 55 | $archives = $this->BlogArticles |
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| 56 | ->find('all') |
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| 57 | ->select([ |
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| 58 | 'date' => 'DATE(created)', |
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| 59 | 'count' => 'COUNT(*)' |
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| 60 | ]) |
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| 61 | ->group('SUBSTR(DATE(created), 1, 7)') |
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| 62 | ->order([ |
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| 63 | 'date' => 'desc' |
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| 64 | ]) |
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| 65 | ->where([ |
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| 66 | 'is_display' => 1 |
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| 67 | ]) |
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| 68 | ->toArray(); |
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| 70 | $this->set(compact('categories', 'featured', 'archives', 'articleSearch')); |
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| 71 | } |
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| 72 | } |
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In PHP it is possible to write to properties without declaring them. For example, the following is perfectly valid PHP code:
Generally, it is a good practice to explictly declare properties to avoid accidental typos and provide IDE auto-completion: