Code snippets

You will find here 6 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 unit test a Symfony custom constraint with the ConstraintValidatorTestCase. In the previous snippet, we ...

Symfony

Published on 2022-11-06 • Modified on 2022-11-06

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This snippet shows how to unit test a custom Symfony validation constraint. One learns every day; I made this snippet inspired by ...

Symfony

Published on 2022-11-05 • Modified on 2022-11-05

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This snippet shows how to test a getter and a setter simultaneously in a PHPUnit test case. This small trick allows us to gain spa...

PHP

Published on 2022-10-26 • Modified on 2022-10-26

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In this snippet, we see how to test the presence of keys in a JSON API response. We can use the PHPUnit assertEqualsCanonicalizing...

api

Published on 2022-06-28 • Modified on 2022-06-28

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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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In this snippet, we will see how to test if the code throws an exception. We will use the PHPUnit expectException() function with ...

phpunit

Published on 2020-09-20 • Modified on 2020-09-20

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