Code snippets
You will find here 126 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 purge a legacy PHP version from an Ubuntu server. Now that I have installed PHP 8.4 on my server and all...
server
Published on 2024-12-30 • Modified on 2024-12-30
This snippet shows how to generate a random color code with PHP. In the previous snippet, we saw how to generate a random color c...
PHP
Published on 2024-12-15 • Modified on 2024-12-15
This snippet shows how to generate a random color code with Symfony. We can use the ByteString::fromRandom() function of the Stri...
Symfony
Published on 2024-12-11 • Modified on 2024-12-11
This snippet shows how to fix the «pcre2.h file not found» error when compiling a PHP PECL extension with brew. Replace both 10.44...
PHP
Published on 2024-11-29 • Modified on 2024-11-29
This snippet shows how to install a beta version of a PHP PECL extension. For example, when PHP 8.4.1 was released; we had the fol...
PHP
Published on 2024-11-24 • Modified on 2024-11-24
This snippet shows how to generate float numbers with the Randomizer PHP class. The $min and $max boundaries can be inclusive or n...
PHP
Published on 2024-10-05 • Modified on 2024-10-05
This snippet shows how to lint multiple files with the PHP CLI. Passing multiple files to the PHP executable is only possible as o...
PHP
Published on 2024-09-29 • Modified on 2024-09-29
This snippet shows how to pad a multibyte string with PHP. This function was introduced in PHP 8.3. I don't have concrete use case...
PHP
Published on 2024-09-21 • Modified on 2024-09-21
This snippet shows how to retrieve the list of controllers' FQNC of a Symfony application. We can use this handy getAliases() func...
Symfony
Published on 2024-09-14 • Modified on 2024-09-14
This snippet shows how to validate a JSON string with the json_validate() PHP function. This function was introduced in PHP 8.3 an...
PHP
Published on 2024-08-21 • Modified on 2024-08-21