Code snippets

You will find here 7 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 test the presence of keys in a JSON API response. We can use the PHPUnit assertEqualsCanonicalizing...

api

Published on 2022-06-28 • Modified on 2022-06-28

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This snippet shows how to get the IRI of an entity with API Platform (and the opposite!). I have added this snippet because I noti...

API Platform

Published on 2022-03-14 • Modified on 2022-03-14

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In this snippet, we see how to use the Abstract geolocation API with the Symfony HTTP client. I use a factory to create the clien...

Symfony

Published on 2022-02-01 • Modified on 2022-02-01

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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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In this snippet, we will see how to use the JavaScript Fetch API asynchronously. Open your JavaScript console and click on the "fe...

JavaScript

Published on 2020-10-25 • Modified on 2020-10-25

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In this snippet, we will see how to get the payload of a HTTP POST request from a Symfony controller. This is useful for example w...

Symfony

Published on 2020-02-22 • Modified on 2020-02-22

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Sometimes when using the PHP date function you need to use characters how are usually reserved to be converted in some dynamic val...

Twig

Published on 2019-08-14 • Modified on 2019-08-14

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