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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 | ||
| 34 | function b_marquee_article($limit, $dateFormat, $itemsSize) | ||
| 35 | { | ||
| 36 | global $xoopsDB; | ||
|  | |||
| 37 | include_once XOOPS_ROOT_PATH . '/modules/marquee/include/functions.php'; | ||
| 38 | require_once(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH . '/modules/article/include/functions.php'); | ||
| 39 | $block = array(); | ||
| 40 | $myts = MyTextSanitizer::getInstance(); | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | static $accessCats; | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | $artConfig = art_load_config(); | ||
| 45 | art_define_url_delimiter(); | ||
| 46 | |||
| 47 | $select = 'art_id'; | ||
| 48 | $dispTag = ''; | ||
| 49 | $from = ''; | ||
| 50 | $where = ''; | ||
| 51 | $order = 'art_time_publish DESC'; | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | $select .= ', cat_id, art_title, uid, art_time_publish'; | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 |     if (!isset($accessCats)) { | ||
| 56 |         $permissionHandler = xoops_getModuleHandler('permission', 'article'); | ||
| 57 |         $accessCats        = $permissionHandler->getCategories('access'); | ||
| 58 | } | ||
| 59 | $allowedCats = $accessCats; | ||
| 60 | |||
| 61 |     $query = "SELECT $select FROM " . art_DB_prefix('article') . $from; | ||
| 62 |     $query .= ' WHERE cat_id IN (' . implode(',', $allowedCats) . ') AND art_time_publish >0 ' . $where; | ||
| 63 | $query .= ' ORDER BY ' . $order; | ||
| 64 | $query .= ' LIMIT 0, ' . $limit; | ||
| 65 |     if (!$result = $xoopsDB->query($query)) { | ||
| 66 | return false; | ||
| 67 | } | ||
| 68 | $rows = array(); | ||
| 69 | $author = array(); | ||
| 70 |     while ($row = $xoopsDB->fetchArray($result)) { | ||
| 71 | $rows[] = $row; | ||
| 72 | $author[$row['uid']] = 1; | ||
| 73 | } | ||
| 74 |     if (count($rows) < 1) { | ||
| 75 | return false; | ||
| 76 | } | ||
| 77 | $authorName = XoopsUser::getUnameFromId(array_keys($author)); | ||
| 78 | |||
| 79 | $arts = array(); | ||
| 80 | $uids = array(); | ||
| 81 | $cids = array(); | ||
| 82 |     $articleHandler = xoops_getModuleHandler('article', 'article'); | ||
| 83 |     foreach ($rows as $row) { | ||
| 84 | $article = $articleHandler->create(false); | ||
| 85 | $article->assignVars($row); | ||
| 86 | $_art = array(); | ||
| 87 |         foreach ($row as $tag => $val) { | ||
| 88 | $_art[$tag] = @$article->getVar($tag); | ||
| 89 | } | ||
| 90 | $_art['author'] = $authorName[$row['uid']]; | ||
| 91 | |||
| 92 | $_art['date'] = $article->getTime($dateFormat); | ||
| 93 | |||
| 94 | $titlelength = $itemsSize + 3; | ||
| 95 | $_art['title'] = xoops_substr($_art['art_title'], 0, $titlelength); | ||
| 96 | |||
| 97 | $_art['category'] = ''; | ||
| 98 | |||
| 99 | $delimiter = '/'; | ||
| 100 | $_art['link'] = "<a href=\"" . XOOPS_URL . "modules/article/view.article.php$delimiter" . $_art['art_id'] . '/c' . $_art['cat_id'] . "\"><strong>" . $_art['art_title'] . '</strong></a>'; | ||
| 101 | |||
| 102 | $arts[] = $_art; | ||
| 103 | unset($article, $_art); | ||
| 104 | $cids[$row['cat_id']] = 1; | ||
| 105 | } | ||
| 106 | |||
| 107 | $block = $arts; | ||
| 108 | |||
| 109 | return $block; | ||
| 110 | } | ||
| 111 | 
Instead of relying on
globalstate, we recommend one of these alternatives:1. Pass all data via parameters
2. Create a class that maintains your state