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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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| 26 | function update($new_status) |
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| 27 | { |
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| 28 | if (strlen($new_status) > 140) { |
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| 29 | $this->error = "Status too long: {$new_status}."; |
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| 30 | return false; |
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| 31 | } |
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| 32 | $fp = @fsockopen('twitter.com', 80, $errno, $errstr); |
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| 33 | if (!$fp) { |
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| 34 | $this->error = "Socket error #{$errno}: {$errstr}"; |
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| 35 | return false; |
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| 36 | } |
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| 37 | $post_data = 'status=' . urlencode($new_status); |
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| 38 | $to_send = "POST /statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1\r\n"; |
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| 39 | $to_send .= "Host: twitter.com\r\n"; |
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| 40 | $to_send .= 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($post_data) . "\r\n"; |
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| 41 | $to_send .= "Authorization: Basic {$this->auth}\r\n\r\n"; |
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| 42 | $to_send .= $post_data . "\r\n\r\n"; |
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| 43 | $bytes = fwrite($fp, $to_send); |
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| 44 | if ($bytes === false) { |
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| 45 | $this->error = 'Socket error: Error sending data.'; |
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| 46 | return false; |
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| 47 | } elseif ($bytes < strlen($to_send)) { |
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| 48 | $this->error = 'Socket error: Could not send all data.'; |
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| 49 | return false; |
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| 50 | } |
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| 51 | if ($this->debug) echo "Sent:\n{$to_send}\n\n"; |
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| 52 | $response = ''; |
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| 53 | while (!feof($fp)) { |
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| 54 | $buf = fread($fp, 1024); |
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| 55 | if ($buf === false) { |
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| 56 | $this->error = 'Socket error: Error reading data.'; |
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| 57 | return false; |
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| 58 | } |
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| 59 | $response .= $buf; |
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| 60 | } |
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| 61 | if ($this->debug) echo "Received:\n{$response}"; |
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| 62 | $was_error = preg_match('#' . preg_quote('<error>') . '(.+)' . preg_quote('</error>') . '#i', $response, $matches); |
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| 63 | if ($was_error) { |
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| 64 | $this->error = "Twitter error: {$matches[1]}"; |
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| 65 | return false; |
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| 66 | } |
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| 67 | list($first_line) = explode("\r\n", $response); |
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| 68 | if ($first_line !== 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK') { |
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| 69 | $this->error = "Request error: {$first_line}"; |
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| 70 | return false; |
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| 71 | } |
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| 72 | return true; |
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| 73 | } |
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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.