Code snippets
You will find here 18 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 get the type name of a variable for debugging. The get_debug_type() function was introduced in PHP 8 and...
PHP
Published on 2022-04-23 • Modified on 2022-04-23
In this snippet, we see how to use a specific branch instead of a version with composer. Sometimes, this can be useful for testing...
composer
Published on 2021-10-02 • Modified on 2021-10-02
This snippet shows how to conditionally display stuff with a Symfony command, depending on the current verbosity level. In this ca...
Symfony
Published on 2021-09-18 • Modified on 2021-09-18
In this snippet, we see how to inspect the content of a string using the file_put_contents PHP function. Sometimes, when you use t...
PHP
Published on 2021-09-05 • Modified on 2021-09-05
In this snippet, we see how to get a human-readable version of the PHP error_reporting directive value. The code is mainly extract...
PHP
Published on 2021-08-20 • Modified on 2021-08-20
In this snippet, we will see how to enable or disable the Symfony profiler conditionally. I was reading the documentation (check o...
Symfony
Published on 2020-04-12 • Modified on 2020-04-12
Sometimes it's useful to know if the debug mode is activated. (with the famous debug bar) For example for a batch process, if it i...
Symfony
Published on 2019-07-22 • Modified on 2019-07-22
When a bug occurs, sometimes it's hard to know from where it comes from. Having more context can help and allows to find and to re...
Symfony
Published on 2019-03-19 • Modified on 2019-03-19