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 will see how to manually render checkboxes of a form with Twig. This can be useful when you have special thing...

Symfony

Published on 2020-01-21 • Modified on 2020-01-21

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In this snippet we will see how to run raw SQL queries via the Doctrine DBAL connection instance. In the first example, we prepare...

Doctrine

Published on 2020-01-16 • Modified on 2020-01-16

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Sometimes, it's useful to know the current route name in a Twig template. For example in a layout where you don't "receive" the ro...

Symfony

Published on 2020-01-09 • Modified on 2020-01-09

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This is my deploy configuration for the EasyDeploy bundle. I finally could delete a "small" hack to modify a private property to m...

Symfony

Published on 2019-12-01 • Modified on 2019-12-01

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You can generate a command with the maker bundle (php bin/console make:command). I use a slightly different template where the hel...

Symfony

Published on 2019-11-24 • Modified on 2019-11-24

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It's a widespread need to have to get the referrer of the current request. Of course, it can be done via the Symfony request value...

Symfony

Published on 2019-11-20 • Modified on 2019-11-20

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Sometimes you need to access an application's constant as a parameter in the container service file. You can directly use the PHP ...

Symfony

Published on 2019-10-25 • Modified on 2019-10-25

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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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This is another example where the constant Twig function can be helpful. In this case we get the \DateTime::ATOM PHP constant to p...

Twig

Published on 2019-08-18 • Modified on 2019-08-18

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This is another example where the constant Twig function can be helpful. In this case we get the JSON_PRETTY_PRINT PHP constant to...

Twig

Published on 2019-08-17 • Modified on 2019-08-17

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