Code snippets
You will find here 21 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 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 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
This snippet shows how to retrieve the data size in bytes of a PHP ini configuration value. We can use the ini_parse_quantity func...
PHP
Published on 2024-08-18 • Modified on 2024-08-18
This snippet shows how to hide sensitive parameter values with the SensitiveParameter PHP attribute. PHP 8.2 introduced this param...
PHP
Published on 2024-08-15 • Modified on 2024-08-15
This snippet shows how to use negative indices with PHP arrays. It is one of the breaking changes introduced by PHP 8. If an array...
PHP
Published on 2024-02-24 • Modified on 2024-02-24
This snippet shows how to pick random keys of an array with PHP. This pickArrayKeys() is very convenient and, unlike most other ra...
PHP
Published on 2023-09-13 • Modified on 2023-09-13
I continue my series about PHP 8.2 and the randomizer class. This time, we see how to shuffle an array thanks to the shuffleArray(...
PHP
Published on 2023-09-11 • Modified on 2023-09-11
This snippet shows how to shuffle bytes with PHP and the randomizer class. We use the shufflebytes() function. This function does ...
PHP
Published on 2023-09-10 • Modified on 2023-09-10