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 ™.
This snippet shows how to detect four bytes encoded characters/emojis with PHP. This can be useful to avoid errors while inserting...
PHP
Published on 2024-05-17 • Modified on 2024-05-17
This snippet shows how to show hidden characters with Neovim. We must use the listchars parameter. In the following configuration:...
neovim
Published on 2024-03-03 • Modified on 2024-03-03
This snippet shows how to use negative indices with PHP arrays. It is one of the breaking changes introduced by PHP 8. If an array...
PHP
Published on 2024-02-24 • Modified on 2024-02-24
This snippet shows how to get the difference between a tag and the current branch with Git. It is straightforward; we have to pass...
GIT
Published on 2024-01-28 • Modified on 2024-01-28
This snippet shows how to convert an emoji into an HTML entity with PHP. This is a way to do it. I'll explore other possible solut...
PHP
Published on 2023-10-10 • Modified on 2023-10-10
This snippet shows a YAML template to create a Symfony tagged iterator service: 1. We activate autowiring and autoconfigure. 2. We...
Symfony
Published on 2023-01-06 • Modified on 2023-01-06
This snippet shows how to put in place a health check for a docker Redis service in a docker-compose file. There is the ping funct...
Docker
Published on 2022-12-17 • Modified on 2022-12-17
In this snippet, we see how to calculate the number of months between two dates in PHP. Here, we don't care about the days at all....
PHP
Published on 2022-06-15 • Modified on 2022-06-15
In this snippet, we will see how to test redirections with the Symfony Http client. The code we will see is, in fact, a functional...
Symfony
Published on 2020-04-15 • Modified on 2020-04-15
This is the docker-compose file I am using for Redis. It's very concise, you can also specify the image version number: eg: redis:...
Docker
Published on 2019-11-09 • Modified on 2019-11-09