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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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| 16 | protected function getDateTimeFromString($date, $direction = 'start')  | 
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| 17 |     { | 
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| 18 |         try { | 
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| 19 |             $datetime = \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $date); | 
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| 20 |             if (!empty($datetime) && $datetime instanceof \DateTime) { | 
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| 21 | return $datetime;  | 
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| 22 | }  | 
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| 23 |         } catch (\Exception $e) { | 
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| 24 | }  | 
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| 25 | |||
| 26 | // try without time  | 
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| 27 |         try { | 
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| 28 |             $datetime = \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date); | 
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| 29 |             if (!empty($datetime) && $datetime instanceof \DateTime) { | 
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| 30 |                 if ($direction === 'start') { | 
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| 31 | $datetime->setTime(0, 0, 0);  | 
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| 32 |                 } elseif ($direction === 'end') { | 
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| 33 | $datetime->setTime(23, 59, 59);  | 
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| 34 | }  | 
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| 35 | |||
| 36 | return $datetime;  | 
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| 37 | }  | 
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| 38 |         } catch (\Exception $e) { | 
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| 39 | }  | 
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| 40 | |||
| 41 | // try using timestamp  | 
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| 42 |         try { | 
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| 43 |             $datetime = \DateTime::createFromFormat('U', $date); | 
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| 44 |             if (!empty($datetime) && $datetime instanceof \DateTime) { | 
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| 45 | return $datetime;  | 
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| 46 | }  | 
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| 47 |         } catch (\Exception $e) { | 
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| 48 | }  | 
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| 49 | |||
| 50 |         throw new \InvalidArgumentException('Unable to parse date'); | 
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| 51 | }  | 
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| 52 | }  | 
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