Code snippets

You will find here 9 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 ™.

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Show hidden characters with Neovim

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

neovim vim characters editor

Using negative indices with PHP arrays

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

PHP array negative indice bc PHP 8.3

Getting the diff between a tag and the current branch with Git

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

GIT branch diff "%tag%" tag

Converting an emoji into an HTML entity with PHP

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

PHP emoji smiley encoding utf8 utf32 html

YAML template to create a Symfony tagged iterator service

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

Symfony di YAML "%tag%" tag iterator services

Redis service docker-compose health check

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

Docker Docker compose Redis healthcheck

Calculating the number of months between two dates in PHP

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

PHP date carbon diff calculation

Testing redirections with the Symfony HTTP client

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

Symfony ssl SEO redirection HTTP client

Docker compose file for Redis

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

Docker Docker compose Redis cache