Code snippets
You will find here 109 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 ™.
In this snippet, we see how to trim the first word of a string with PHP. In the following example, we can't use a simple replace f...
PHP
Published on 2021-11-28 • Modified on 2021-12-03
In this snippet, we see how to generate a random string with the Symfony string component. There is this static function fromRando...
Symfony
Published on 2021-11-21 • Modified on 2021-11-21
In this snippet, we see how to get the first character of a string with PHP and Symfony. In the first part, we see how to use the ...
PHP
Published on 2021-11-12 • Modified on 2021-11-12
In this snippet, we see how to test a JSON login with the API Platform ApiTestCase class. We pass the username and password with t...
API Platform
Published on 2021-10-31 • Modified on 2021-10-31
This snippet shows how to create a dynamic date depending on the current fixture with nelmio/alice. The trick is to use the $curre...
alice
Published on 2021-10-24 • Modified on 2021-10-24
This snippet shows how to conditionally display stuff with a Symfony command, depending on the current verbosity level. In this ca...
Symfony
Published on 2021-09-18 • Modified on 2021-09-18
This snippet shows how to initialize a Symfony sandbox with a given version, thanks to the Symfony binary. You have to use the --v...
Symfony
Published on 2021-09-17 • Modified on 2021-09-17
In this snippet, we see how to sort YAML file keys alphabetically with the YAML component. This is something that can be useful to...
YAML
Published on 2021-08-15 • Modified on 2021-08-15
In this snippet, we see how to validate array keys type and presence with the Symfony validator component. This is straightforward...
Symfony
Published on 2021-08-07 • Modified on 2021-08-07
In this snippet, we see how to delete lines of the terminal using a Symfony command. Symfony 5.1 has introduced a significant chan...
Symfony
Published on 2021-08-01 • Modified on 2021-08-01