Code snippets

You will find here 4 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 create an event subscriber for a 404 NotFoundHttpException. Here, we test if a given path was accessed (...

Symfony

Published on 2023-03-30 • Modified on 2023-03-30

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This snippet shows how to check if a Symfony route exists. We mustn't use the getRouteCollection() method because it regenerates t...

Symfony

Published on 2022-10-22 • Modified on 2022-10-22

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This snippet shows how to fetch a Doctrine entity from a repository with the correct type hint. We can use the find() function to ...

Doctrine

Published on 2022-05-14 • Modified on 2022-05-14

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In this snippet, we will see how to test if the code throws an exception. We will use the PHPUnit expectException() function with ...

phpunit

Published on 2020-09-20 • Modified on 2020-09-20

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