Code snippets

You will find here 15 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 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

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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

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This is a classic JavaScript snippet we all used at least once! There are several ways to achieve this, but I think the following ...

JavaScript

Published on 2020-01-06 • Modified on 2020-01-06

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The str_split function is not well known. It converts a string into an array of characters (with the default second parameter). It...

PHP

Published on 2019-12-05 • Modified on 2019-12-05

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This is a simple trick to get a random value of an array created on the fly. Of course, in this case, the array must have unique v...

PHP

Published on 2019-09-09 • Modified on 2019-09-09

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