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Vlastimil Pospichal • 
:r !grep word file
:r !sqlite3 data.sqlite "select value from Snippet where key='word'"
:%!sort
:!php %
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Igor Irianto •

Oh nice! I didn't think about sqlite and grep. Those two would be super handy.
Regarding sort, I am already used to vim's built-in sort in vim (:h sort) though :)