Code snippets

You will find here 4 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 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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