Code snippets

You will find here 9 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 display a money amount with Twig. There's a filter for that, and it handles the current locale. The fol...

Twig

Published on 2023-02-25 • Modified on 2023-02-25

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This snippet shows how to disable the translations for the test environment with Symfony. The goal is to test the translation code...

Symfony

Published on 2023-01-31 • Modified on 2023-01-31

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This snippet shows how to check if a variable is an enumeration. No is_enum() function exists because is_*() functions don't app...

PHP

Published on 2022-12-09 • Modified on 2022-12-09

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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

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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

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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

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This snippet shows how to translate the day and month of a date with PHP. We use the intl extension and its IntlDateFormatter clas...

PHP

Published on 2022-04-12 • Modified on 2022-04-12

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In this snippet, we see how to sort YAML file keys alphabetically with the YAML component. This is something that can be useful to...

YAML

Published on 2021-08-15 • Modified on 2021-08-15

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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

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