Code snippets

You will find here 7 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 all the routes of a Symfony application. Here, we display all the routes starting with blog_ which b...

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Published on 2023-03-31 • Modified on 2023-03-31

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This snippet shows how to check if a Symfony route exists. We mustn't use the getRouteCollection() method because it regenerates t...

Symfony

Published on 2022-10-22 • Modified on 2022-10-22

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Sometimes, it's useful to know the current route name in a Twig template. For example in a layout where you don't "receive" the ro...

Symfony

Published on 2020-01-09 • Modified on 2020-01-09

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This is a feature that was introduced in Symfony 4.1. It allows to directly inject a parameter in a route requirement instead of p...

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Published on 2019-08-01 • Modified on 2019-08-01

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The $_route and $_route_params magic variables are available in controllers' actions. We can declare them as function arguments or...

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Published on 2018-12-11 • Modified on 2018-12-11

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Sometimes it is useful to get the referrer routing information when you have a page that have multiple access points. Knowing the ...

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Published on 2018-10-31 • Modified on 2018-11-03

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Sometimes you must restrict an action to be accessible with a given method only. That is the case for example for the "check_path"...

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Published on 2018-09-26 • Modified on 2018-09-26

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