Code snippets
You will find here 26 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 cache data with Symfony. This one is for me because I always forget how to do. We have to inject the Cac...
Symfony
Published on 2022-03-13 • Modified on 2022-03-13
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 see how to get the value of a Symfony form field inside a Twig template. We can access it with the help of the...
Symfony
Published on 2021-06-05 • Modified on 2021-06-05
In this snippet, we will see how to access the bound's entity to a Symfony form type inside the buildForm function. We just have t...
Symfony
Published on 2021-03-16 • Modified on 2021-03-16
In this snippet, we will see how to test if a Doctrine entity has been modified from its initial state in the database. We must us...
Doctrine
Published on 2020-12-18 • Modified on 2020-12-18
In this snippet, we will see how to mark with an asterisk all the required fields of a Symfony form. We will do it with CSS. Inspe...
Symfony
Published on 2020-08-25 • Modified on 2020-08-25
In this snippet, we will see how to manually render checkboxes of a form with Twig. This can be useful when you have special thing...
Symfony
Published on 2020-01-21 • Modified on 2020-01-21
[Edit 2020-02-19] Please read my blog post on this topic. This is was my preferred way to declare and use Doctrine repositories. ...
Doctrine
Published on 2019-08-27 • Modified on 2020-02-17
Sometimes it's useful to know if a form is valid inside a Twig template. Indeed, when using the form_ helpers like form_error all ...
Symfony
Published on 2019-07-23 • Modified on 2019-11-08
When having form for entities, it is common to have unique constraints, for example on the username or the email of a user. I am n...
Symfony
Published on 2019-07-04 • Modified on 2019-07-04