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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 | #!/bin/php  | 
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| 20 | function demonstrate()  | 
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| 21 |     { | 
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| 22 | //---- begin of factories  | 
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| 23 | $classFactory = $this->getClassGeneratorFactory();  | 
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| 24 | $documentationFactory = $this->getDocumentationGeneratorFactory();  | 
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| 25 | $methodFactory = $this->getMethodGeneratorFactory();  | 
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| 26 | $propertyFactory = $this->getPropertyGeneratorFactory();  | 
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| 27 | //---- end of factories  | 
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| 28 | |||
| 29 | $class = $classFactory->create();  | 
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| 30 | $class->setDocumentation($documentationFactory->create());  | 
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| 31 |         $class->setName('ExampleDTO'); | 
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| 32 | |||
| 33 | $properties = [  | 
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| 34 | [  | 
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| 35 | 'name' => 'foo',  | 
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| 36 | 'typeHint' => null,  | 
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| 37 | 'value' => 42  | 
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| 38 | ],  | 
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| 39 | [  | 
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| 40 | 'name' => 'foobar',  | 
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| 41 | 'typeHint' => 'array',  | 
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| 42 | 'value' => null  | 
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| 43 | ],  | 
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| 44 | [  | 
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| 45 | 'name' => 'bar',  | 
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| 46 | 'typeHint' => 'Bar',  | 
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| 47 | 'value' => null  | 
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| 48 | ]  | 
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| 49 | ];  | 
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| 50 | |||
| 51 |         foreach ($properties as $value) { | 
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| 52 | //---- begin of properties  | 
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| 53 | $property = $propertyFactory->create();  | 
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| 54 | $property->setDocumentation($documentationFactory->create());  | 
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| 55 | $property->setName($value['name']);  | 
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| 56 |             if (!is_null($value['value'])) { | 
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| 57 |                 $property->setValue('value'); | 
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| 58 | }  | 
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| 59 | $property->markAsPrivate();  | 
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| 60 | $property->setDocumentation($documentationFactory->create());  | 
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| 61 | //---- end of properties  | 
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| 62 | |||
| 63 | //---- begin of getter method  | 
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| 64 | $getterMethod = $methodFactory->create();  | 
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| 65 | $getterMethod->setDocumentation($documentationFactory->create());  | 
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| 66 |             $getterMethod->setName('get' . ucfirst($value['name'])); | 
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| 67 | $getterMethod->setBody(  | 
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| 68 | [  | 
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| 69 | '$this->' . $value['name'] . ' = $' . $value['name'] . ';'  | 
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| 70 | ],  | 
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| 71 | [  | 
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| 72 | $value['typeHint']  | 
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| 73 | ]  | 
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| 74 | );  | 
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| 75 | //---- end of getter method  | 
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| 76 | |||
| 77 | //---- begin of setter method  | 
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| 78 | $setterMethod = $methodFactory->create();  | 
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| 79 | $setterMethod->setDocumentation($documentationFactory->create());  | 
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| 80 | $setterMethod->addParameter($value['name'], null, $value['typeHint']);  | 
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| 81 |             $setterMethod->setName('set' . ucfirst($value['name'])); | 
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| 82 | $setterMethod->setBody(  | 
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| 83 | [  | 
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| 84 | 'return $this->' . $value['name'] . ';'  | 
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| 85 | ]  | 
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| 86 | );  | 
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| 87 | //---- end of setter method  | 
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| 88 | |||
| 89 | $class->addProperty($property);  | 
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| 90 | $class->addMethod($getterMethod);  | 
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| 91 | $class->addMethod($setterMethod);  | 
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| 92 | }  | 
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| 93 | |||
| 94 | echo 'generated content' . PHP_EOL;  | 
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| 95 | echo '----' . PHP_EOL;  | 
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| 96 | echo $class->generate() . PHP_EOL;  | 
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| 97 | }  | 
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| 98 | }  | 
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| 102 | 
Adding explicit visibility (
private,protected, orpublic) is generally recommend to communicate to other developers how, and from where this method is intended to be used.