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  04/02/2015

  How to show or access cookie values in Symfony Twig views

  Strange how obscure it is to find a clear example of how to just access or show the value of a cookie in Twig, so here it is!

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  03/24/2015

  Doctrine field type mappings: tinyint is a boolean

  When Doctrine reads a MySQL schema, every tinyint becomes boolean whatever its declared length. The full type table, and two ways to keep a small integer an integer.

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  01/01/2015

  Reading the current locale in Symfony

  The locale lives on the Request, not in a global. How to reach it from a controller, from a service that has no request, and from a template - and where it is set before any of that.

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  01/01/2015

  Limiting a Doctrine query with setMaxResults

  Here is an example of a simple DQL query in a custom repository method meant to return a single array result. The following will return the latest result in case there are multiple contact records that match the…