Code snippets

You will find here 5 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 get the name of a Twig template inside a Twig template. Yes, this is inception! Not so hard as there is...

Twig

Published on 2023-02-18 • Modified on 2023-02-18

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In this snippet, we see how to test if a block in a Twig template exists. It's sometimes helpful to know if one of the parent temp...

Twig

Published on 2021-05-22 • Modified on 2021-05-22

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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 will see how to get the block names of a Twig template. To do so, we must use the Twig\Environment service whi...

Twig

Published on 2020-08-08 • Modified on 2020-08-08

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