Code snippets
You will find here 10 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 a previous snippet, we saw how to validate an array using the existing validator service manually. In this snippet, we manuall...
Symfony
Published on 2023-08-09 • Modified on 2023-08-09
This snippet shows how to generate a random token for a mail confirmation link using PHP and Symfony. The final length of the gene...
PHP
Published on 2023-07-01 • Modified on 2023-07-01
This snippet shows how to use the Symfony string component to get the singular or plural of a word. It isn't easy to do this as th...
Symfony
Published on 2022-10-15 • Modified on 2022-10-15
This snippet shows how to generate a slug with the Symfony string component. Usually, when using the Symfony string component, we ...
Symfony
Published on 2022-10-11 • Modified on 2022-10-11
This snippet shows how to check if a string contains another string with PHP. This is a kind of tribute to our "old" PHP. The str...
PHP
Published on 2022-04-15 • Modified on 2022-04-15
This snippet shows how to trim a word (or string) at the start of a string with PHP or Symfony. In the following example, we can't...
PHP
Published on 2022-03-05 • Modified on 2022-03-05
In this snippet, we see how to extract the domain of an email with PHP. First, a solution with plain PHP, then with the Symfony st...
PHP
Published on 2022-01-27 • Modified on 2022-01-27
In this snippet, we see how to trim the first word of a string with PHP. In the following example, we can't use a simple replace f...
PHP
Published on 2021-11-28 • Modified on 2021-12-03
In this snippet, we see how to generate a random string with the Symfony string component. There is this static function fromRando...
Symfony
Published on 2021-11-21 • Modified on 2021-11-21
In this snippet, we see how to get the first character of a string with PHP and Symfony. In the first part, we see how to use the ...
PHP
Published on 2021-11-12 • Modified on 2021-11-12