Code snippets
You will find here 256 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 create a fixed-size array with PHP. We can use the SplFixedArray class. It is interesting to use this s...
PHP
Published on 2022-11-11 • Modified on 2022-11-11
This snippet shows how to create a UTC timezone date with PHP. The first thing to know is that if your server already has UTC as t...
PHP
Published on 2022-11-10 • Modified on 2022-11-10
This snippet shows how to unit test a Symfony custom constraint with the ConstraintValidatorTestCase. In the previous snippet, we ...
Symfony
Published on 2022-11-06 • Modified on 2022-11-06
This snippet shows how to unit test a custom Symfony validation constraint. One learns every day; I made this snippet inspired by ...
Symfony
Published on 2022-11-05 • Modified on 2022-11-05
This snippet shows how to test a getter and a setter simultaneously in a PHPUnit test case. This small trick allows us to gain spa...
PHP
Published on 2022-10-26 • Modified on 2022-10-26
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