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 get the current target name in a Makefile. It is an automatic Make variable. Check out the documentation...

Makefile

Published on 2024-11-03 • Modified on 2024-11-03

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This snippet shows how to convert a CSV file into Symfony entities. Instead of manually setting each property, we can use the Symf...

Symfony

Published on 2024-07-21 • Modified on 2024-07-21

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This snippet shows how to import a CSV file with the SplFileObject PHP class. What is excellent about this class is that it will a...

PHP

Published on 2024-07-06 • Modified on 2024-07-06

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This snippet shows how to get the absolute physical path of the current Makefile. The documentation is available by clicking the "...

Makefile

Published on 2024-06-08 • Modified on 2024-06-08

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In the previous snippet, we saw how to list files of a directory and its subfolders with the RecursiveDirectoryIterator SPL class...

Symfony

Published on 2024-02-13 • Modified on 2024-02-13

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This snippet shows how to list files of a directory and its subfolders with PHP. There are several ways to achieve this goal, but ...

PHP

Published on 2024-02-12 • Modified on 2024-02-12

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This snippet shows how to deactivate the profiler (debug bar) simultaneously wit the debug mode with Symfony. We can use this litt...

Symfony

Published on 2023-01-02 • Modified on 2023-01-02

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In this snippet, we see how to inspect the content of a string using the file_put_contents PHP function. Sometimes, when you use t...

PHP

Published on 2021-09-05 • Modified on 2021-09-05

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In this snippet, we see how to get the physical path of a temporary PHP file. In this case, we use the tmpfile() function to creat...

PHP

Published on 2021-07-25 • Modified on 2021-07-25

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In this snippet, we will see how to test if a Docker container is healthy in a Makefile. The goal is to use this check before runn...

Docker

Published on 2021-02-27 • Modified on 2021-02-27

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