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 FQCN of a variable with ::class; this is new functionality introduced in PHP 8.1. Before, we cou...

PHP

Published on 2022-09-11 • Modified on 2022-09-11

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This snippet shows how to access an object property or array index with Twig dynamically. We can use the same attribute() function...

Twig

Published on 2022-06-20 • Modified on 2022-06-20

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This snippet shows how to declare a string in PHP with a Heredoc and Nowdoc block. This one is for me as I always forget how to do...

PHP

Published on 2022-04-30 • Modified on 2022-04-30

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This snippet shows how to get the type name of a variable for debugging. The get_debug_type() function was introduced in PHP 8 and...

PHP

Published on 2022-04-23 • Modified on 2022-04-23

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In this snippet, we will see how to get a variable from an include. Here, we affect the return value of an include call to the $de...

PHP

Published on 2020-07-25 • Modified on 2020-07-25

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