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 ™.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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In this snippet, we see how to test the current PHP version. The most straightforward way is to use the PHP_VERSION_ID constant. I...

PHP

Published on 2021-11-19 • Modified on 2021-11-19

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In this snippet, we see how to get the first character of a string with PHP and Symfony. In the first part, we see how to use the ...

PHP

Published on 2021-11-12 • Modified on 2021-11-12

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This snippet shows how to wait for a Docker container to be ready, thanks to the inspect command. This is a script you can call ju...

Docker

Published on 2021-11-01 • Modified on 2021-11-01

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In this snippet, we see how to test a JSON login with the API Platform ApiTestCase class. We pass the username and password with t...

API Platform

Published on 2021-10-31 • Modified on 2021-10-31

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