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| Paths | 1 | 
| Total Lines | 36 | 
| Code Lines | 18 | 
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| Bugs | 1 | Features | 2 | 
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 namespace jlourenco\support\Traits;  | 
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| 12 | public static function bootCreation()  | 
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| 13 |     {
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| 14 | |||
| 15 | // create a event to happen on deleting  | 
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| 16 |         static::deleting(function($table)  {
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| 17 |             if (class_exists('Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Sentinel'))
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| 18 | $table->deleted_by = Sentinel::getUser()->id;  | 
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| 19 | else  | 
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| 20 | $table->deleted_by = Auth::user()->id;  | 
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| 21 | |||
| 22 | $table->update(['deleted_by' => $table->deleted_by]);  | 
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| 23 | });  | 
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| 24 | |||
| 25 | // create a event to happen on saving  | 
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| 26 |         static::saving(function($table)  {
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| 27 | |||
| 28 |             if (class_exists('Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Sentinel'))
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| 29 |             {
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| 30 | if (Sentinel::check())  | 
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| 31 | $table->modified_by = Sentinel::getUser()->id;  | 
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| 32 | |||
| 33 | if (Sentinel::check() && ($table->created_by == null || !($table->created_by > 0)))  | 
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| 34 | $table->created_by = Sentinel::getUser()->id;  | 
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| 35 | }  | 
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| 36 | else  | 
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| 37 |             {
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| 38 | if (!Auth::guest())  | 
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| 39 | $table->modified_by = Auth::user()->id;  | 
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| 40 | |||
| 41 | if (!Auth::guest() && ($table->created_by == null || !($table->created_by > 0)))  | 
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| 42 | $table->created_by = Auth::user()->id;  | 
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| 43 | }  | 
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| 44 | |||
| 45 | });  | 
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| 46 | |||
| 47 | }  | 
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| 54 | }  | 
            
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: