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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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86 | public function pretty_dates() { |
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88 | if ($this->to_date == '9999-12-31') { |
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89 | return 'since ' . format_date($this->from_date, SHORTDATEFORMAT); |
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90 | } |
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91 | |||
92 | $output = ''; |
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93 | |||
94 | if ( |
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95 | !($this->source == 'chgpages/selctee' && $this->from_date == '2004-05-28') and |
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96 | !($this->source == 'chgpages/privsec' && $this->from_date == '2004-05-13') |
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97 | ) { |
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98 | if ($this->source == 'chgpages/privsec' && $this->from_date == '2005-11-10') { |
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99 | $output .= 'before '; |
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100 | } |
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101 | $output .= format_date($this->from_date, SHORTDATEFORMAT) . ' '; |
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102 | } |
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103 | |||
104 | $output .= 'to '; |
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105 | |||
106 | if ($this->source == 'chgpages/privsec' && $this->to_date == '2005-11-10') { |
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107 | $output .= 'before '; |
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108 | } |
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110 | if ($this->source == 'chgpages/privsec' && $this->to_date == '2009-01-16') { |
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111 | $output .= '<a href="/help/#pps_unknown">unknown</a>'; |
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112 | } else { |
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113 | $output .= format_date($this->to_date, SHORTDATEFORMAT); |
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114 | } |
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116 | return $output; |
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