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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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| 66 | public function getColumnDefinition() |
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| 67 | { |
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| 68 | return [ |
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| 69 | [ |
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| 70 | 'Field' => 'id', |
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| 71 | 'Type' => 'int(10) unsigned', |
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| 72 | 'Null' => 'NO', |
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| 73 | 'Key' => 'PRI', |
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| 74 | 'Default' => null, |
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| 75 | 'Extra' => 'auto_increment', |
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| 76 | 'Comment' => '', |
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| 77 | 'CharacterSet' => null, |
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| 78 | 'Collation' => null |
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| 79 | ],[ |
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| 80 | 'Field'=> 'created_by', |
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| 81 | 'Type'=> 'varchar(40)', |
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| 82 | 'Null'=> 'YES', |
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| 83 | 'Key'=> '', |
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| 84 | 'Default'=> null, // MySQL 5.1 - 5.7 sends: null |
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| 85 | 'Extra' => '', |
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| 86 | 'Comment' => 'Creator name', |
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| 87 | 'CharacterSet' => 'utf8', |
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| 88 | 'Collation'=> 'utf8_unicode_ci' |
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| 89 | ], |
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| 90 | // Mariadb since 10.2.7, see https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13341 |
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| 91 | [ |
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| 92 | 'Field' => 'updated_at', |
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| 93 | 'Type' => 'datetime', |
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| 94 | 'Null' => 'YES', |
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| 95 | 'Key' => '', |
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| 96 | 'Default' => 'NULL', // MariaDB 10.2.7 return 'NULL' |
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| 97 | 'Extra' => '', |
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| 98 | 'Comment' => 'Record last update timestamp', |
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| 99 | 'CharacterSet' => null, |
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| 100 | 'Collation' => null |
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| 101 | ], |
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| 102 | // Mariadb 10.2 test with defaults that could be |
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| 103 | // ambiguous (see text_1 and text_2 Default) |
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| 104 | [ |
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| 105 | 'Field' => 'text_1', |
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| 106 | 'Type' => 'varchar(50)', |
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| 107 | 'Null' => 'YES', |
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| 108 | 'Key' => '', |
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| 109 | 'Default' => "'NULL'", |
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| 110 | 'Extra' => '', |
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| 111 | 'Comment' => '', |
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| 112 | 'CharacterSet' => 'utf8', |
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| 113 | 'Collation'=> 'utf8_unicode_ci' |
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| 114 | ],[ |
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| 115 | 'Field' => 'text_2', |
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| 116 | 'Type' => 'varchar(50)', |
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| 117 | 'Null' => 'YES', |
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| 118 | 'Key' => '', |
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| 119 | 'Default' => 'NULL', |
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| 120 | 'Extra' => '', |
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| 121 | 'Comment' => '', |
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| 122 | 'CharacterSet' => 'utf8', |
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| 123 | 'Collation'=> 'utf8_unicode_ci' |
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| 124 | ], |
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| 127 | ]; |
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| 128 | |||
| 129 | } |
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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: