Code snippets

You will find here 10 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 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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In the previous snippet, we saw how to inject the Symfony project root directory in the services with a bind. We can also use a P...

Symfony

Published on 2023-09-29 • Modified on 2023-09-29

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This snippet shows how to inject the Symfony project root directory in your services (or your controllers) with a bind. In a previ...

Symfony

Published on 2023-09-28 • Modified on 2023-09-28

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This snippet shows a YAML template to create a Symfony tagged iterator service: 1. We activate autowiring and autoconfigure. 2. We...

Symfony

Published on 2023-01-06 • Modified on 2023-01-06

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When you use a database container for MySQL, you start the service by calling docker-compose up -d db. But, if you run a Symfony c...

Docker

Published on 2021-02-06 • Modified on 2021-02-06

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This is the third part of the "wait-for-this-service" series (check the links below the code). In the last snippet, we saw how to ...

Docker

Published on 2020-09-08 • Modified on 2020-09-08

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In the previous snippet, we saw how to do it for a Postgres service; now it's for MySQL. The process is similar, but there is a sl...

Docker

Published on 2020-09-03 • Modified on 2020-09-03

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In this snippet, we will see how to wait for the Postgres service to be available before using it. It's to avoid the following kin...

Docker

Published on 2020-08-30 • Modified on 2020-08-30

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In this snippet, we will see how to enable or disable the Symfony profiler conditionally. I was reading the documentation (check o...

Symfony

Published on 2020-04-12 • Modified on 2020-04-12

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[Edit 2020-02-19] Please read my blog post on this topic. This is was my preferred way to declare and use Doctrine repositories. ...

Doctrine

Published on 2019-08-27 • Modified on 2020-02-17

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