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 ™.
When you use a database container for MySQL, you start the service by calling docker-compose up -d db. But, if you run a Symfony c...
Docker
Published on 2021-02-06 • Modified on 2021-02-06
This one is for me! I always want to write: "last day of the month" which sounds OK... but, it's not! It's "last day of this month...
PHP
Published on 2021-01-30 • Modified on 2021-01-30
In this snippet, we will see how to remove microseconds from a PHP DateTime object. This was a breaking change from PHP 7.0 to 7.1...
PHP
Published on 2021-01-23 • Modified on 2021-01-23
It's more a note than a snippet, but I wanted to have it at my disposal as I always forget. Also note that to delete the last stas...
GIT
Published on 2021-01-16 • Modified on 2021-01-16
In a previous snippet, we saw how to force the dowload of a file that already exists on the file system. But, generally, you want ...
Symfony
Published on 2021-01-10 • Modified on 2021-01-10
In this snippet, we will see how to prevent deploying when you have local changes, and you didn't push all your work to your deplo...
GIT
Published on 2021-01-05 • Modified on 2021-01-05
In this snippet, we will see how to switch PHP version locally when using Brew for MacOS. I didn't use this a lot in the past beca...
PHP
Published on 2021-01-01 • Modified on 2021-01-01
In this snippet, we will see how to freeze a composer dependency to a given commit. It can be useful sometimes to avoid a bug that...
composer
Published on 2020-12-23 • Modified on 2020-12-23
In this snippet, we will see how to test if a Doctrine entity has been modified from its initial state in the database. We must us...
Doctrine
Published on 2020-12-18 • Modified on 2020-12-18
In this snippet, we will see how to pass parameters to a Makefile rule. You can do so by adding parameter=value to the make call, ...
Makefile
Published on 2020-12-09 • Modified on 2020-12-09