Code snippets
You will find here 295 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this snippet, we see how to get the JSON request body as an array with Symfony. I still see projects trying to decode $request-...
Symfony
Published on 2021-12-04 • Modified on 2021-12-04
In this snippet, we see how to trim the first word of a string with PHP. In the following example, we can't use a simple replace f...
PHP
Published on 2021-11-28 • Modified on 2021-12-03
In this snippet, we see how to generate a random string with the Symfony string component. There is this static function fromRando...
Symfony
Published on 2021-11-21 • Modified on 2021-11-21