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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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| 62 | 	public function main() { | 
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| 63 | 		if (empty($this->args)) { | 
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| 64 | return $this->out($this->OptionParser->help());  | 
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| 65 | }  | 
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| 66 | |||
| 67 | $type = strtolower($this->args[0]);  | 
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| 68 | |||
| 69 | 		if (isset($this->paths[$type])) { | 
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| 70 | $path = $this->paths[$type];  | 
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| 71 | 		} else { | 
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| 72 | $path = $this->paths['core'];  | 
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| 73 | }  | 
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| 74 | |||
| 75 | $count = count($this->args);  | 
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| 76 | 		if ($count > 1) { | 
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| 77 | $file = Inflector::underscore($this->args[1]);  | 
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| 78 | $class = Inflector::camelize($this->args[1]);  | 
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| 79 | 		} elseif ($count) { | 
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| 80 | $file = $type;  | 
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| 81 | $class = Inflector::camelize($type);  | 
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| 82 | }  | 
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| 83 | 		$objects = App::objects('class', $path); | 
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| 84 | 		if (in_array($class, $objects)) { | 
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| 85 | 			if (in_array($type, array('behavior', 'component', 'helper')) && $type !== $file) { | 
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| 86 | 				if (!preg_match('/' . Inflector::camelize($type) . '$/', $class)) { | 
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| 87 | $class .= Inflector::camelize($type);  | 
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| 88 | }  | 
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| 89 | }  | 
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| 90 | |||
| 91 | 		} else { | 
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| 92 | 			$this->error(__d('cake_console', '%s not found', $class)); | 
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| 93 | }  | 
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| 94 | |||
| 95 | $parsed = $this->_parseClass($path . $class . '.php', $class);  | 
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| 96 | |||
| 97 | 		if (!empty($parsed)) { | 
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| 98 | 			if (isset($this->params['method'])) { | 
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| 99 | 				if (!isset($parsed[$this->params['method']])) { | 
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| 100 | 					$this->err(__d('cake_console', '%s::%s() could not be found', $class, $this->params['method'])); | 
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| 101 | return $this->_stop();  | 
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| 102 | }  | 
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| 103 | $method = $parsed[$this->params['method']];  | 
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| 104 | $this->out($class . '::' . $method['method'] . $method['parameters']);  | 
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| 105 | $this->hr();  | 
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| 106 | $this->out($method['comment'], true);  | 
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| 107 | 			} else { | 
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| 108 | $this->out(ucwords($class));  | 
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| 109 | $this->hr();  | 
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| 110 | $i = 0;  | 
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| 111 | 				foreach ($parsed as $method) { | 
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| 112 | $list[] = ++$i . ". " . $method['method'] . $method['parameters'];  | 
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| 113 | }  | 
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| 114 | $this->out($list);  | 
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| 115 | |||
| 116 | $methods = array_keys($parsed);  | 
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| 117 | 				while ($number = strtolower($this->in(__d('cake_console', 'Select a number to see the more information about a specific method. q to quit. l to list.'), null, 'q'))) { | 
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| 118 | 					if ($number === 'q') { | 
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| 119 | 						$this->out(__d('cake_console', 'Done')); | 
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| 120 | return $this->_stop();  | 
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| 121 | }  | 
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| 122 | |||
| 123 | 					if ($number === 'l') { | 
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| 124 | $this->out($list);  | 
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| 125 | }  | 
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| 126 | |||
| 127 | 					if (isset($methods[--$number])) { | 
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| 128 | $method = $parsed[$methods[$number]];  | 
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| 129 | $this->hr();  | 
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| 130 | $this->out($class . '::' . $method['method'] . $method['parameters']);  | 
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| 131 | $this->hr();  | 
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| 132 | $this->out($method['comment'], true);  | 
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| 133 | }  | 
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| 134 | }  | 
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| 135 | }  | 
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| 136 | }  | 
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| 137 | }  | 
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| 138 | |||
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If you define a variable conditionally, it can happen that it is not defined for all execution paths.
Let’s take a look at an example:
In the above example, the variable $x is defined if you pass “foo” or “bar” as argument for $a. However, since the switch statement has no default case statement, if you pass any other value, the variable $x would be undefined.
Available Fixes
Check for existence of the variable explicitly:
Define a default value for the variable:
Add a value for the missing path: