Code snippets

You will find here 259 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 ™.

This is a feature that was introduced in Symfony 4.1. It allows to directly inject a parameter in a route requirement instead of p...

Symfony

Published on 2019-08-01 • Modified on 2019-08-01

 View the code


Sometimes it's useful to know if a form is valid inside a Twig template. Indeed, when using the form_ helpers like form_error all ...

Symfony

Published on 2019-07-23 • Modified on 2019-11-08

 View the code


Sometimes it's useful to know if the debug mode is activated. (with the famous debug bar) For example for a batch process, if it i...

Symfony

Published on 2019-07-22 • Modified on 2019-07-22

 View the code


I always forget how to do this! 🤔 So we load the XML with a PHP DOMDocument object then we retrieve the nodes to modify using a DO...

PHP

Published on 2019-07-18 • Modified on 2019-07-18

 View the code


[Edit 2019-12-11] I don't use these scripts anymore. Please use a real deployment tool, you won't regret it. You can find my EasyD...

Symfony

Published on 2019-07-08 • Modified on 2019-12-11

 View the code


When having form for entities, it is common to have unique constraints, for example on the username or the email of a user. I am n...

Symfony

Published on 2019-07-04 • Modified on 2019-07-04

 View the code


It's now common to have forms using multiple steps. Generally you build one form and depending on the current step you will displa...

JavaScript

Published on 2019-06-17 • Modified on 2020-04-20

 View the code


When buidling a form, sometimes you want a field to be rendered with the help of Vue.js instead of Symfony. Using Vue.js allows us...

Symfony

Published on 2019-06-12 • Modified on 2019-06-12

 View the code


Symfony 6.4 beta2 is out as of the 2023-10-29, you can test it by modifying your composer.json file. The following JSON snippet s...

Symfony

Published on 2019-05-11 • Modified on 2023-10-29

 View the code


Here a very simple way to display something to the user the very first time it accesses your website. It uses the browser localsto...

JavaScript

Published on 2019-05-08 • Modified on 2019-05-08

 View the code