Code snippets

You will find here 4 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 PostgreSQL version. Yes, this is as simple as this. Note that this is the exact same query with ...

postgresql

Published on 2024-01-10 • Modified on 2024-01-13

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This snippet shows how to obtain the MySQL or MariaDB version. Yes, this is as simple as this. Note that this is the exact same qu...

MySQL

Published on 2024-01-06 • Modified on 2024-01-06

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In a previous snippet, we saw how to ignore platform requirements globally. Composer now allows ignoring specific requirement par...

composer

Published on 2023-06-10 • Modified on 2023-06-10

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In this snippet, we see how to test the current PHP version. The most straightforward way is to use the PHP_VERSION_ID constant. I...

PHP

Published on 2021-11-19 • Modified on 2021-11-19

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