Code snippets

You will find here 258 code snippets I find useful so I don't have to Google ™ or Stackoverflow ™ them when I need. There are also code snippets I always forget! 😁 Sometimes, related links to the code will be available. The main difference with other random snippets you will find on the web is that in most cases (for the Symfony related ones) you will be able to run them directly from this website to check the output so you can verify it works as expected ™.

In this snippet, we see how to use the Abstract geolocation API with the Symfony HTTP client. I use a factory to create the clien...

Symfony

Published on 2022-02-01 • Modified on 2022-02-01

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In this snippet, we see how to extract the domain of an email with PHP. First, a solution with plain PHP, then with the Symfony st...

PHP

Published on 2022-01-27 • Modified on 2022-01-27

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This snippet shows how to get the properties' original values of a Doctrine entity after an update. One learns every day, I have u...

Doctrine

Published on 2022-01-25 • Modified on 2022-01-25

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In this snippet, we see how to get the first item of an array with PHP. This is a classic snippet every PHP developer had to use o...

PHP

Published on 2022-01-21 • Modified on 2022-01-21

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In this snippet, we see how to test if a Doctrine entity is scheduled for deletion. There are two different methods involving the ...

Doctrine

Published on 2022-01-12 • Modified on 2022-01-12

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In this snippet, we see how to reinitialize a Doctrine entity after a modification. The trick is to use the refresh() function of ...

Doctrine

Published on 2022-01-06 • Modified on 2022-01-06

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This snippet shows how to create to a "n" dimensions matrix with PHP. In the previous snippet, we saw how to create a two dimensi...

PHP

Published on 2022-01-01 • Modified on 2022-01-01

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In this snippet, we see how to create a two dimensions array with PHP. Of course, we can make loops with the range() function but ...

PHP

Published on 2021-12-30 • Modified on 2021-12-30

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We test if a class attribute is initialized with PHP in this snippet. It may not be obvious; we all know how to test if a variable...

PHP

Published on 2021-12-23 • Modified on 2021-12-23

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In this snippet, we see how to get the columns count of the terminal. The two following commands produce the same result. In the f...

terminal

Published on 2021-12-21 • Modified on 2021-12-21

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