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 ™.
This snippet shows how to get the path of a PHP interface or class. It can sometimes be helpful when debugging autoloading issues....
PHP
Published on 2023-08-08 • Modified on 2023-08-08
This snippet shows how to index a PHP array of objects by their class name. We can use the array_reduce function instead of doing ...
PHP
Published on 2023-06-17 • Modified on 2023-06-17
This snippet shows how to retrieving the attributes' parameters of a PHP class with reflection. As you can see, it's straightforwa...
PHP
Published on 2023-01-26 • Modified on 2023-01-26
This snippet shows how to get the calling function name in a debug message with PHP. That's a common need when you want to log or ...
PHP
Published on 2022-09-22 • Modified on 2022-09-22
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
In this snippet, we see how to get the short name of a PHP class. First with using reflection and secondarily using the Symfony st...
PHP
Published on 2022-02-05 • Modified on 2022-02-05
We test if a class attribute is initialized with PHP in this snippet. It may not be obvious; we all know how to test if a variable...
PHP
Published on 2021-12-23 • Modified on 2021-12-23