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 ™.

In this snippet, we see how to get the current environment in a Twig template with Symfony. This is simple to do thanks to the twi...

Twig

Published on 2021-05-05 • Modified on 2021-05-05

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This is a Doctrine entity listener empty template for Symfony that you can copy-paste in your projects. I wanted to have it here o...

Doctrine

Published on 2021-04-26 • Modified on 2021-04-26

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In this snippet, we see how to retrieve a Doctrine entity's changeset after an update. This is essential to know when using Doctri...

Doctrine

Published on 2021-04-21 • Modified on 2021-04-21

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In this snippet, we will see how to create a simple dateTime object with the Alice fixtures bundle. When you start to play with th...

Symfony

Published on 2021-04-03 • Modified on 2021-04-03

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In this snippet, we will see how to deactivate the SSL peer certificate check with the Symfony HTTP client. When you trust the sou...

Symfony

Published on 2021-03-20 • Modified on 2021-03-20

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In this snippet, we will see how to access the bound's entity to a Symfony form type inside the buildForm function. We just have t...

Symfony

Published on 2021-03-16 • Modified on 2021-03-16

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In a previous snippet, we saw how to force the dowload of a file that already exists on the file system. But, generally, you want ...

Symfony

Published on 2021-01-10 • Modified on 2021-01-10

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In this snippet, we will see how to test if a Doctrine entity has been modified from its initial state in the database. We must us...

Doctrine

Published on 2020-12-18 • Modified on 2020-12-18

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In this snippet, we will see how to request a JSON response with the Symfony HTTP test client. If your controller returns in a JSO...

Symfony

Published on 2020-11-24 • Modified on 2020-11-24

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Here is a typical PHPStan configuration file for a Symfony project. I have added some links to the documentation, so you know what...

Symfony

Published on 2020-11-11 • Modified on 2020-11-20

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