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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  | 
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| 113 | public function sentence($ago = false, $referenceDate = null)  | 
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| 114 |     { | 
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| 115 | $timestamp = $this->selectTimestamp();  | 
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| 116 | $now = $referenceDate === null ? time() : strtotime($referenceDate);  | 
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| 117 | $elapsed = $now - $timestamp;  | 
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| 118 | |||
| 119 | $future = $elapsed < 0;  | 
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| 120 | $elapsed = abs($elapsed);  | 
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| 121 | $englishDate = '';  | 
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| 122 | |||
| 123 | $timeFrames = array(  | 
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| 124 | array(  | 
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| 125 | 'min' => 0,  | 
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| 126 | 'max' => 10,  | 
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| 127 | 'scale' => 'now',  | 
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| 128 | 'plurals' => false,  | 
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| 129 | 'divisor' => 1,  | 
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| 130 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 131 | 'show_elapsed' => false  | 
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| 132 | ),  | 
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| 133 | array(  | 
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| 134 | 'min' => 10,  | 
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| 135 | 'max' => 60,  | 
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| 136 | 'scale' => 'second',  | 
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| 137 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 138 | 'divisor' => 1,  | 
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| 139 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 140 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 141 | ),  | 
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| 142 | array(  | 
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| 143 | 'min' => 60,  | 
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| 144 | 'max' => 3600,  | 
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| 145 | 'scale' => 'minute',  | 
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| 146 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 147 | 'divisor' => 60,  | 
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| 148 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 149 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 150 | ),  | 
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| 151 | array(  | 
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| 152 | 'min' => 3600,  | 
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| 153 | 'max' => 86400,  | 
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| 154 | 'scale' => 'hour',  | 
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| 155 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 156 | 'divisor' => 3600,  | 
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| 157 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 158 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 159 | ),  | 
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| 160 | array(  | 
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| 161 | 'min' => 86400,  | 
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| 162 | 'max' => 172800,  | 
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| 163 |                 'scale' => array('yesterday', 'tomorrow'), | 
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| 164 | 'has_future' => true,  | 
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| 165 | 'plurals' => false,  | 
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| 166 | 'divisor' => 86400,  | 
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| 167 | 'show_elapsed' => false  | 
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| 168 | ),  | 
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| 169 | array(  | 
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| 170 | 'min' => 172800,  | 
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| 171 | 'max' => 604800,  | 
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| 172 | 'scale' => 'day',  | 
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| 173 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 174 | 'divisor' => 86400,  | 
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| 175 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 176 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 177 | ),  | 
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| 178 | array(  | 
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| 179 | 'min' => 604800,  | 
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| 180 | 'max' => 2419200,  | 
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| 181 | 'scale' => 'week',  | 
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| 182 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 183 | 'divisor' => 604800,  | 
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| 184 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 185 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 186 | ),  | 
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| 187 | array(  | 
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| 188 | 'min' => 2419200,  | 
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| 189 | 'max' => 31536000,  | 
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| 190 | 'scale' => 'month',  | 
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| 191 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 192 | 'divisor' => 2419200,  | 
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| 193 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 194 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 195 | ),  | 
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| 196 | array(  | 
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| 197 | 'min' => 31536000,  | 
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| 198 | 'max' => 0,  | 
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| 199 | 'scale' => 'year',  | 
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| 200 | 'plurals' => true,  | 
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| 201 | 'divisor' => 31536000,  | 
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| 202 | 'has_future' => false,  | 
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| 203 | 'show_elapsed' => true  | 
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| 204 | ),  | 
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| 205 | );  | 
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| 206 | |||
| 207 | foreach($timeFrames as $timeFrame)  | 
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| 208 |         { | 
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| 209 | if(($elapsed >= $timeFrame['min'] && $elapsed < $timeFrame['max']) || ($elapsed >= $timeFrame['min'] && $timeFrame['max'] === 0))  | 
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| 210 |             { | 
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| 211 | $value = floor($elapsed / $timeFrame['divisor']);  | 
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| 212 | $englishDate = $this->getEnglishDate($timeFrame, $value, $future);  | 
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| 213 | break;  | 
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| 214 | }  | 
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| 215 | }  | 
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| 216 | |||
| 217 | if($englishDate != 'now' && $englishDate != 'yesterday' && $englishDate != 'today' && $ago)  | 
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| 218 |         { | 
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| 219 | if($future)  | 
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| 220 |             { | 
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| 221 | $englishDate = 'in '. $englishDate;  | 
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| 222 | }  | 
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| 223 | else  | 
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| 224 |             { | 
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| 225 | $englishDate .= ' ago';  | 
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| 226 | }  | 
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| 227 | }  | 
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| 228 | |||
| 229 | return $englishDate;  | 
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| 230 | }  | 
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| 243 |