Code snippets
You will find here 108 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 ™.
Sometimes you need to access an application's constant as a parameter in the container service file. You can directly use the PHP ...
Symfony
Published on 2019-10-25 • Modified on 2019-10-25
This is a simple trick to get a random value of an array created on the fly. Of course, in this case, the array must have unique v...
PHP
Published on 2019-09-09 • Modified on 2019-09-09
This is another example where the constant Twig function can be helpful. In this case we get the \DateTime::ATOM PHP constant to p...
Twig
Published on 2019-08-18 • Modified on 2019-08-18
Sometimes when using the PHP date function you need to use characters how are usually reserved to be converted in some dynamic val...
Twig
Published on 2019-08-14 • Modified on 2019-08-14
I always forget how to do this! 🤔 So we load the XML with a PHP DOMDocument object then we retrieve the nodes to modify using a DO...
PHP
Published on 2019-07-18 • Modified on 2019-07-18
It is sometimes helpful to have this information. There are various ways to get the Symfony version. In CLI, we can use the bin/c...
Symfony
Published on 2019-01-15 • Modified on 2023-01-06
In this snippet, we create a mail attachment with the help of the Swift_Attachment object then we "attach" it to the Swift_Message...
PHP
Published on 2018-10-16 • Modified on 2018-10-16
Sometimes you must restrict an action to be accessible with a given method only. That is the case for example for the "check_path"...
Symfony
Published on 2018-09-26 • Modified on 2018-09-26