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 ™.

This snippet shows how to trim a word (or string) at the start of a string with PHP or Symfony. In the following example, we can't...

PHP

Published on 2022-03-05 • Modified on 2022-03-05

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In this snippet, we see how to get the short name of a PHP class. First with using reflection and secondarily using the Symfony st...

PHP

Published on 2022-02-05 • Modified on 2022-02-05

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In this snippet, we see how to use the Abstract geolocation API with the Symfony HTTP client. I use a factory to create the clien...

Symfony

Published on 2022-02-01 • Modified on 2022-02-01

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In this snippet, we see how to get the JSON request body as an array with Symfony. I still see projects trying to decode $request-...

Symfony

Published on 2021-12-04 • Modified on 2021-12-04

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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