Code snippets

You will find here 31 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 generate float numbers with the Randomizer PHP class. The $min and $max boundaries can be inclusive or n...

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Published on 2024-10-05 • Modified on 2024-10-05

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This snippet shows how to lint multiple files with the PHP CLI. Passing multiple files to the PHP executable is only possible as o...

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Published on 2024-09-29 • Modified on 2024-09-29

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This snippet shows how to pad a multibyte string with PHP. This function was introduced in PHP 8.3. I don't have concrete use case...

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Published on 2024-09-21 • Modified on 2024-09-21

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This snippet shows how to validate a JSON string with the json_validate() PHP function. This function was introduced in PHP 8.3 an...

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Published on 2024-08-21 • Modified on 2024-08-21

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This snippet shows how to retrieve the data size in bytes of a PHP ini configuration value. We can use the ini_parse_quantity func...

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Published on 2024-08-18 • Modified on 2024-08-18

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This snippet shows how to hide sensitive parameter values with the SensitiveParameter PHP attribute. PHP 8.2 introduced this param...

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Published on 2024-08-15 • Modified on 2024-08-15

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This snippet shows how to format a date using the IntlDatePatternGenerator PHP class. We define a pattern, and then a "best" patte...

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Published on 2024-08-03 • Modified on 2024-08-03

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This snippet shows how to replace UTF8mb4 characters like emojis with HTML entities in a string with PHP. It can be helpful, for e...

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Published on 2024-06-22 • Modified on 2024-06-22

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This snippet shows how to detect four bytes encoded characters/emojis with PHP. This can be useful to avoid errors while inserting...

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Published on 2024-05-17 • Modified on 2024-05-17

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This snippet shows how to use negative indices with PHP arrays. It is one of the breaking changes introduced by PHP 8. If an array...

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Published on 2024-02-24 • Modified on 2024-02-24

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