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 extract the GET parameters of an URL with PHP. We can use parse_url(), providing the PHP_URL_QUERY as th...
PHP
Published on 2022-07-06 • Modified on 2022-07-06
This snippet shows how to use the PHP compact function with the Symfony debug functions. Symfony dump() and dd() functions are gre...
Symfony
Published on 2022-06-30 • Modified on 2022-06-30
In this snippet, we see how to test the presence of keys in a JSON API response. We can use the PHPUnit assertEqualsCanonicalizing...
api
Published on 2022-06-28 • Modified on 2022-06-28
This snippet shows how to use constants in PHP 8 attributes. It is an excellent pro that PHP 8 attributes provide. Before, we had ...
PHP
Published on 2022-06-25 • Modified on 2022-06-25
In this snippet, we see how to calculate the number of months between two dates in PHP. Here, we don't care about the days at all....
PHP
Published on 2022-06-15 • Modified on 2022-06-15
This snippet shows how to fetch a Doctrine entity from a repository with the correct type hint. We can use the find() function to ...
Doctrine
Published on 2022-05-14 • Modified on 2022-05-14
This snippet shows how to declare a string in PHP with a Heredoc and Nowdoc block. This one is for me as I always forget how to do...
PHP
Published on 2022-04-30 • Modified on 2022-04-30
This snippet shows how to get the type name of a variable for debugging. The get_debug_type() function was introduced in PHP 8 and...
PHP
Published on 2022-04-23 • Modified on 2022-04-23
This snippet shows how to check if a string contains another string with PHP. This is a kind of tribute to our "old" PHP. The str...
PHP
Published on 2022-04-15 • Modified on 2022-04-15
This snippet shows how to translate the day and month of a date with PHP. We use the intl extension and its IntlDateFormatter clas...
PHP
Published on 2022-04-12 • Modified on 2022-04-12