Code snippets

You will find here 5 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 convert a GET parameter to a bool type with PHP. Sometimes, when you need to convert a GET filter on an ...

PHP

Published on 2023-09-01 • Modified on 2023-09-01

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This snippet shows how to execute a given Make target inside a target. When you want to run a target before another, you can put a...

make

Published on 2023-03-15 • Modified on 2023-03-15

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This snippet shows how to create a Docker compose health check for HTTP services with wget. Usually, we can use CURL for these kin...

Docker

Published on 2022-12-26 • Modified on 2022-12-26

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This snippet shows how to test a getter and a setter simultaneously in a PHPUnit test case. This small trick allows us to gain spa...

PHP

Published on 2022-10-26 • Modified on 2022-10-26

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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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