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 install a beta version of a PHP PECL extension. For example, when PHP 8.4.1 was released; we had the fol...

PHP

Published on 2024-11-24 • Modified on 2024-11-24

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This snippet shows how to generate a slug with the Symfony string component. Usually, when using the Symfony string component, we ...

Symfony

Published on 2022-10-11 • Modified on 2022-10-11

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In this snippet, we see how to get the activated PHP extensions list with their versions. I use a one-line statement with an arrow...

PHP

Published on 2021-10-07 • Modified on 2021-10-07

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In this snippet, we will see how to test the type of a variable in a Twig template. We will create a small extension for this purp...

Twig

Published on 2020-06-15 • Modified on 2020-06-15

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