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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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| 22 | public function createInstance()  | 
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| 23 |     { | 
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| 24 |         switch ($this->method) { | 
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| 25 | case 'addBigIntegerColumn':  | 
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| 26 | case 'addBinaryColumn':  | 
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| 27 | case 'addBooleanColumn':  | 
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| 28 | case 'addDateColumn':  | 
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| 29 | case 'addDateTimeColumn':  | 
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| 30 | case 'addDecimalColumn':  | 
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| 31 | case 'addFloatColumn':  | 
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| 32 | case 'addIntegerColumn':  | 
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| 33 | case 'addSmallIntegerColumn':  | 
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| 34 | case 'addStringColumn':  | 
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| 35 | case 'addTextColumn':  | 
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| 36 | case 'addTimeColumn':  | 
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| 37 | $namespace = 'Rentgen\\Database\\Column\\';  | 
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| 38 | $class = $namespace . ltrim($this->method, 'add');  | 
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| 39 | $options = isset($this->params[1]) ? $this->params[1] : array();  | 
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| 41 |                 if ('addStringColumn' === $this->method && !isset($options['limit'])) { | 
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| 42 | $options['limit'] = 255;  | 
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| 43 | }  | 
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| 44 | $column = new $class($this->params[0], $options);  | 
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| 46 |                 if (isset($options['comment'])) { | 
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| 47 | $column->setDescription($options['comment']);  | 
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| 48 | }  | 
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| 49 | break;  | 
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| 50 | default:  | 
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| 51 |                 throw new \Exception(sprintf("Unsupported method " . $this->method)); | 
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| 52 | }  | 
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| 53 | |||
| 54 | return $column;  | 
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| 55 | }  | 
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| 56 | }  | 
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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: