Code snippets

You will find here 5 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 get the PostgreSQL version. Yes, this is as simple as this. Note that this is the exact same query with ...

postgresql

Published on 2024-01-10 • Modified on 2024-01-13

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This snippet shows how to obtain the MySQL or MariaDB version. Yes, this is as simple as this. Note that this is the exact same qu...

MySQL

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

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This snippet shows how to convert a GET parameter to a bool type with PHP. Sometimes, when you need to convert a GET filter on an ...

PHP

Published on 2023-09-01 • Modified on 2023-09-01

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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

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This is a classic JavaScript snippet we all used at least once! There are several ways to achieve this, but I think the following ...

JavaScript

Published on 2020-01-06 • Modified on 2020-01-06

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