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 will see how to use a regexp to select data in a MySQL query. First in the where clause we declare the column t...
MySQL
Published on 2020-01-18 • Modified on 2020-01-18
In this snippet we will see how to run raw SQL queries via the Doctrine DBAL connection instance. In the first example, we prepare...
Doctrine
Published on 2020-01-16 • Modified on 2020-01-16
This is a super useful trick to test packages at arbitrary versions. In the following example, the master branch of the friendsofs...
composer
Published on 2020-01-11 • Modified on 2020-01-12
Sometimes, it's useful to know the current route name in a Twig template. For example in a layout where you don't "receive" the ro...
Symfony
Published on 2020-01-09 • Modified on 2020-01-09
This is a classic JavaScript snippet we all used at least once! There are several ways to achieve this, but I think the following ...
JavaScript
Published on 2020-01-06 • Modified on 2020-01-06
The str_split function is not well known. It converts a string into an array of characters (with the default second parameter). It...
PHP
Published on 2019-12-05 • Modified on 2019-12-05
In this snippet, we will see how to read and modify a private property of a PHP object. I recently had a concrete case when I have...
PHP
Published on 2019-12-03 • Modified on 2020-02-03
This is my deploy configuration for the EasyDeploy bundle. I finally could delete a "small" hack to modify a private property to m...
Symfony
Published on 2019-12-01 • Modified on 2019-12-01
You can generate a command with the maker bundle (php bin/console make:command). I use a slightly different template where the hel...
Symfony
Published on 2019-11-24 • Modified on 2019-11-24
It's a widespread need to have to get the referrer of the current request. Of course, it can be done via the Symfony request value...
Symfony
Published on 2019-11-20 • Modified on 2019-11-20