Code snippets

You will find here 113 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 ™.

Sometimes validating each field of a form is not enough. In some cases you need a conditional validation. That means that the vali...

Symfony

Published on 2019-03-26 • Modified on 2019-03-28

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When a bug occurs, sometimes it's hard to know from where it comes from. Having more context can help and allows to find and to re...

Symfony

Published on 2019-03-19 • Modified on 2019-03-19

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Well, it's in fact the Twig helper that I am using on this website to show all the snippets. You already have a native source Twi...

Symfony

Published on 2019-02-08 • Modified on 2019-02-10

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It is sometimes useful to be able to use the Symfony validation services outside of the form context. In a controller for example ...

Symfony

Published on 2019-01-30 • Modified on 2019-01-30

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It is sometimes helpful to have this information. There are various ways to get the Symfony version. In CLI, we can use the bin/c...

Symfony

Published on 2019-01-15 • Modified on 2023-01-06

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The trick here is that the like must be in the where clause andWhere() whereas the wildcard character % must be passed to the setP...

Doctrine

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

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

Symfony

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

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I have always used shell (.sh) scripts to streamline all my dev tasks on Symfony projects. But I discovered (here and here) that w...

Symfony

Published on 2018-11-30 • Modified on 2021-10-10

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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 ...

Symfony

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

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One learn every day! This is so true, in fact I have created this snippet because I didn't knew about the Kernel::getProjectDir()...

Symfony

Published on 2018-10-28 • Modified on 2019-12-08

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