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 a specific branch instead of a version with composer. Sometimes, this can be useful for testing...

composer

Published on 2021-10-02 • Modified on 2021-10-02

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This snippet shows how to conditionally display stuff with a Symfony command, depending on the current verbosity level. In this ca...

Symfony

Published on 2021-09-18 • Modified on 2021-09-18

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This snippet shows how to initialize a Symfony sandbox with a given version, thanks to the Symfony binary. You have to use the --v...

Symfony

Published on 2021-09-17 • Modified on 2021-09-17

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In this snippet, we see how to ignore platform requirements with composer. In a project I maintain, I did an update of a package, ...

composer

Published on 2021-09-15 • Modified on 2021-09-15

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In this snippet, we see how to inspect the content of a string using the file_put_contents PHP function. Sometimes, when you use t...

PHP

Published on 2021-09-05 • Modified on 2021-09-05

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In this snippet, we see how to get a human-readable version of the PHP error_reporting directive value. The code is mainly extract...

PHP

Published on 2021-08-20 • Modified on 2021-08-20

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In this snippet, we see how to sort YAML file keys alphabetically with the YAML component. This is something that can be useful to...

YAML

Published on 2021-08-15 • Modified on 2021-08-15

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In this snippet, we see how to validate array keys type and presence with the Symfony validator component. This is straightforward...

Symfony

Published on 2021-08-07 • Modified on 2021-08-07

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In this snippet, we see how to delete lines of the terminal using a Symfony command. Symfony 5.1 has introduced a significant chan...

Symfony

Published on 2021-08-01 • Modified on 2021-08-01

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In this snippet, we see how to get the physical path of a temporary PHP file. In this case, we use the tmpfile() function to creat...

PHP

Published on 2021-07-25 • Modified on 2021-07-25

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