Code snippets

You will find here 9 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 get the meaning of HTTP response codes with Symfony. It can be done with the help of the Response class ...

Symfony

Published on 2023-03-06 • Modified on 2023-03-06

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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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In this snippet, we see how to use the Abstract geolocation API with the Symfony HTTP client. I use a factory to create the clien...

Symfony

Published on 2022-02-01 • Modified on 2022-02-01

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In this snippet, we will see how to deactivate the SSL peer certificate check with the Symfony HTTP client. When you trust the sou...

Symfony

Published on 2021-03-20 • Modified on 2021-03-20

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In this snippet, we will see how to request a JSON response with the Symfony HTTP test client. If your controller returns in a JSO...

Symfony

Published on 2020-11-24 • Modified on 2020-11-24

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In this snippet, we will see how to get your public IP address with the Symfony HTTP client. Be careful that here, by public IP, I...

Symfony

Published on 2020-07-05 • Modified on 2020-07-05

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In this snippet, we will see how to test redirections with the Symfony Http client. The code we will see is, in fact, a functional...

Symfony

Published on 2020-04-15 • Modified on 2020-04-15

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In this snippet, we will see how to get the payload of a HTTP POST request from a Symfony controller. This is useful for example w...

Symfony

Published on 2020-02-22 • Modified on 2020-02-22

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