Code snippets

You will find here 6 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 wait for a Docker container to be ready, thanks to the inspect command. This is a script you can call ju...

Docker

Published on 2021-11-01 • Modified on 2021-11-01

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When you use a database container for MySQL, you start the service by calling docker-compose up -d db. But, if you run a Symfony c...

Docker

Published on 2021-02-06 • Modified on 2021-02-06

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This is the third part of the "wait-for-this-service" series (check the links below the code). In the last snippet, we saw how to ...

Docker

Published on 2020-09-08 • Modified on 2020-09-08

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In the previous snippet, we saw how to do it for a Postgres service; now it's for MySQL. The process is similar, but there is a sl...

Docker

Published on 2020-09-03 • Modified on 2020-09-03

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In this snippet, we will see how to wait for the Postgres service to be available before using it. It's to avoid the following kin...

Docker

Published on 2020-08-30 • Modified on 2020-08-30

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Sometimes you need to access an application's constant as a parameter in the container service file. You can directly use the PHP ...

Symfony

Published on 2019-10-25 • Modified on 2019-10-25

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