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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:
PHP Analyzer performs a side-effects analysis of your code. A side-effect is basically anything that might be visible after the scope of the method is left.
Let’s take a look at an example:
If we look at the
getEmail()method, we can see that it has no side-effect. Whether you call this method or not, no future calls to other methods are affected by this. As such code as the following is useless:On the hand, if we look at the
setEmail(), this method _has_ side-effects. In the following case, we could not remove the method call: