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 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

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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

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This snippet shows how to format a date using the IntlDatePatternGenerator PHP class. We define a pattern, and then a "best" patte...

PHP

Published on 2024-08-03 • Modified on 2024-08-03

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This snippet shows how to convert a PHP stdClass object into an array. We can use this famous trick utilising the json_encode() fu...

PHP

Published on 2024-07-27 • Modified on 2024-07-27

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This snippet shows how to import a CSV file with the SplFileObject PHP class. What is excellent about this class is that it will a...

PHP

Published on 2024-07-06 • Modified on 2024-07-06

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This snippet shows how to replace UTF8mb4 characters like emojis with HTML entities in a string with PHP. It can be helpful, for e...

PHP

Published on 2024-06-22 • Modified on 2024-06-22

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This snippet shows how to memoize a pure function result on an object. The code comes from this snippet, thanks to the author, ca...

PHP

Published on 2024-06-01 • Modified on 2024-06-01

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This snippet shows how to detect four bytes encoded characters/emojis with PHP. This can be useful to avoid errors while inserting...

PHP

Published on 2024-05-17 • Modified on 2024-05-17

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This snippet shows how to transform an array into a traversable object with PHP. A reminder: iterable is a type hint introduced in...

PHP

Published on 2024-04-21 • Modified on 2024-04-21

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This snippet shows how to inject the APP_ENV and APP_DEBUG parameters in your Symfony services (or your controllers) with a bind. ...

Symfony

Published on 2024-04-13 • Modified on 2024-04-13

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