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 ™.
This snippet shows how to debug a variable with a concise stack trace with the Symfony VarDumper. The debug_print_backtrace() func...
Symfony
Published on 2023-04-28 • Modified on 2023-04-28
This snippet shows how to convert an array into an object with the Symfony serializer. That's a common need to denormalize an ar...
Symfony
Published on 2023-04-13 • Modified on 2023-04-13
This snippet shows how to retrieving the attributes' parameters of a PHP class with reflection. As you can see, it's straightforwa...
PHP
Published on 2023-01-26 • Modified on 2023-01-26
This snippet shows how to get a DateTime object from a DateTimeImmuntable object with PHP. We can use the setTimestamp() function ...
PHP
Published on 2023-01-03 • Modified on 2023-01-03
This snippet shows how to generate an array with the same keys and values with PHP. This is the first time I have tried chatGPT to...
PHP
Published on 2022-12-10 • Modified on 2022-12-10
This snippet shows how to check if a variable is an enumeration. No is_enum() function exists because is_*() functions don't app...
PHP
Published on 2022-12-09 • Modified on 2022-12-09
This snippet shows how to create a fixed-size array with PHP. We can use the SplFixedArray class. It is interesting to use this s...
PHP
Published on 2022-11-11 • Modified on 2022-11-11
This snippet shows how to create a UTC timezone date with PHP. The first thing to know is that if your server already has UTC as t...
PHP
Published on 2022-11-10 • Modified on 2022-11-10
This snippet shows how to unit test a Symfony custom constraint with the ConstraintValidatorTestCase. In the previous snippet, we ...
Symfony
Published on 2022-11-06 • Modified on 2022-11-06
This snippet shows how to unit test a custom Symfony validation constraint. One learns every day; I made this snippet inspired by ...
Symfony
Published on 2022-11-05 • Modified on 2022-11-05