Code snippets
You will find here 7 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 check if a string contains valid JSON with PHP. This function was introduced in PHP 8.3 to avoid using j...
PHP
Published on 2024-02-07 • Modified on 2024-02-07
In this snippet, we see how to test the presence of keys in a JSON API response. We can use the PHPUnit assertEqualsCanonicalizing...
api
Published on 2022-06-28 • Modified on 2022-06-28
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
In this snippet, we see how to get the JSON request body as an array with Symfony. I still see projects trying to decode $request-...
Symfony
Published on 2021-12-04 • Modified on 2021-12-04
In this snippet, we see how to test a JSON login with the API Platform ApiTestCase class. We pass the username and password with t...
API Platform
Published on 2021-10-31 • Modified on 2021-10-31
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
This is another example where the constant Twig function can be helpful. In this case we get the JSON_PRETTY_PRINT PHP constant to...
Twig
Published on 2019-08-17 • Modified on 2019-08-17