Code snippets
You will find here 211 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 snippet shows how to anonymize an IP address with Symfony. We can use the IpUtils class which handles both V4 and V6 addresse...
Symfony
Published on 2022-10-23 • Modified on 2022-10-23
This snippet shows how to check if a Symfony route exists. We mustn't use the getRouteCollection() method because it regenerates t...
Symfony
Published on 2022-10-22 • Modified on 2022-10-22
This snippet shows how to use the Symfony string component to get the singular or plural of a word. It isn't easy to do this as th...
Symfony
Published on 2022-10-15 • Modified on 2022-10-15
This snippet shows how to generate a slug with the Symfony string component. Usually, when using the Symfony string component, we ...
Symfony
Published on 2022-10-11 • Modified on 2022-10-11
This snippet shows how to use the new first-class callable syntax introduced in PHP 8.1. Creating a callback has never been the mo...
PHP
Published on 2022-10-02 • Modified on 2022-10-02
This snippet shows how to get the calling function name in a debug message with PHP. That's a common need when you want to log or ...
PHP
Published on 2022-09-22 • Modified on 2022-09-22
This snippet shows how to get the FQCN of a variable with ::class; this is new functionality introduced in PHP 8.1. Before, we cou...
PHP
Published on 2022-09-11 • Modified on 2022-09-11
This snippet shows how to test if an array is a list with PHP. This function was introduced in PHP 8.1, before we had to do this m...
PHP
Published on 2022-09-10 • Modified on 2022-09-10
This snippet shows how to use the PHP null coalescing assignment operator. One learns every day! I had totally forgotten about th...
PHP
Published on 2022-09-09 • Modified on 2022-09-09
This snippet shows how to select an invalid choice value of a select form field in a Symfony functional test. Indeed, if you try t...
Symfony
Published on 2022-08-19 • Modified on 2022-08-19