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Installing Doctrine

4:44
02

Creating an Entity Class

4:55
03

Database Migrations

5:47
04

Saving Entities

7:40
05

Querying for Data!

9:16
06

Fun with Twig Extensions!

4:48
07

ago Filter with KnpTimeBundle

3:42
08

Service Subscriber: Lazy Performance

6:46
09

All about Entity Repositories

5:35
10

Custom Queries

6:20
11

Query Logic Re-use & Shortcuts

6:40
12

Updating an Entity with New Fields

9:40
13

Updating an Entity

7:37
14

Fixtures: Seeding Dummy Data!

9:34
15

Using Faker for Seeding Data

6:29
16

Sluggable & other Wonderful Behaviors

7:24
17

When Migrations Fail

5:34
18

Activating Timestampable

4:03

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Put on your publishing hat, because it's time to write some thoughtful space articles and insert some rows into our article table! And, good news! This is probably one of the easiest things to do in Doctrine.

Let's create a new controller called ArticleAdminController. We'll use this as a place to add new articles. Make it extend the normal AbstractController:

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Above, add the @Route() - make sure to auto-complete the one from Symfony Components so that PhpStorm adds the use statement. For the URL, how about /admin/article/new:

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We're not actually going to build a real page with a form here right now. Instead, I just want to write some code that saves a dummy article to the database.

But first, to make sure I haven't screwed anything up, return a new Response: the one from HttpFoundation with a message:

space rocks... include comets, asteroids & meteoroids

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                /**
        
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                {
        
                    return new Response('space rocks... include comets, asteroids & meteoroids');
        
                }
        
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Now, we should be able to find the browser and head to /admin/article/new. Great!

Creating the Article Object

So, here's the big question: how do you save data to the database with Doctrine? The answer... is beautiful: just create an Article object with the data you need, then ask Doctrine to put it into the database.

Start with $article = new Article():

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For this article's data, go back to the "Why Asteroids Taste like Bacon" article: we'll use this as our dummy news story. Copy the article's title, then call $article->setTitle() and paste:

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This is one of the setter methods that was automatically generated into our entity:

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Oh, and the generator also made all the setter methods return $this, which means you can chain your calls, like: ->setSlug(), then copy the last part of the URL, and paste here. Oh, but we need to make sure this is unique... so just add a little random number at the end:

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                    $article = new Article();
        
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Then, ->setContent(). And to get this, go back to ArticleController, copy all of that meaty markdown and paste here. Ah, make sure the content is completely not indented so the multi-line text works:

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                    $article = new Article();
        
                    $article->setTitle('Why Asteroids Taste Like Bacon')
        
                        ->setSlug('why-asteroids-taste-like-bacon-'.rand(100, 999))
        
                        ->setContent(<<<EOF
        
            Spicy **jalapeno bacon** ipsum dolor amet veniam shank in dolore. Ham hock nisi landjaeger cow,
        
            lorem proident [beef ribs](https://baconipsum.com/) aute enim veniam ut cillum pork chuck picanha. Dolore reprehenderit
        
            labore minim pork belly spare ribs cupim short loin in. Elit exercitation eiusmod dolore cow
        
            **turkey** shank eu pork belly meatball non cupim.
        
            Laboris beef ribs fatback fugiat eiusmod jowl kielbasa alcatra dolore velit ea ball tip. Pariatur
        
            laboris sunt venison, et laborum dolore minim non meatball. Shankle eu flank aliqua shoulder,
        
            capicola biltong frankfurter boudin cupim officia. Exercitation fugiat consectetur ham. Adipisicing
        
            picanha shank et filet mignon pork belly ut ullamco. Irure velit turducken ground round doner incididunt
        
            occaecat lorem meatball prosciutto quis strip steak.
        
            Meatball adipisicing ribeye bacon strip steak eu. Consectetur ham hock pork hamburger enim strip steak
        
            mollit quis officia meatloaf tri-tip swine. Cow ut reprehenderit, buffalo incididunt in filet mignon
        
            strip steak pork belly aliquip capicola officia. Labore deserunt esse chicken lorem shoulder tail consectetur
        
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Much better! The last field is publishedAt. To have more interesting data, let's only publish some articles. So, if a random number between 1 to 10 is greater than 2, publish the article: $article->setPublishedAt() with new \DateTime() and sprintf('-%d days') with a bit more randomness: 1 to 100 days old:

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                        ->setContent(<<<EOF
        
            Spicy **jalapeno bacon** ipsum dolor amet veniam shank in dolore. Ham hock nisi landjaeger cow,
        
            lorem proident [beef ribs](https://baconipsum.com/) aute enim veniam ut cillum pork chuck picanha. Dolore reprehenderit
        
            labore minim pork belly spare ribs cupim short loin in. Elit exercitation eiusmod dolore cow
        
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            Laboris beef ribs fatback fugiat eiusmod jowl kielbasa alcatra dolore velit ea ball tip. Pariatur
        
            laboris sunt venison, et laborum dolore minim non meatball. Shankle eu flank aliqua shoulder,
        
            capicola biltong frankfurter boudin cupim officia. Exercitation fugiat consectetur ham. Adipisicing
        
            picanha shank et filet mignon pork belly ut ullamco. Irure velit turducken ground round doner incididunt
        
            occaecat lorem meatball prosciutto quis strip steak.
        
            Meatball adipisicing ribeye bacon strip steak eu. Consectetur ham hock pork hamburger enim strip steak
        
            mollit quis officia meatloaf tri-tip swine. Cow ut reprehenderit, buffalo incididunt in filet mignon
        
            strip steak pork belly aliquip capicola officia. Labore deserunt esse chicken lorem shoulder tail consectetur
        
            cow est ribeye adipisicing. Pig hamburger pork belly enim. Do porchetta minim capicola irure pancetta chuck
        
            fugiat.
        
            EOF
        
                    );
        
                    // publish most articles
        
                    if (rand(1, 10) > 2) {
        
                        $article->setPublishedAt(new \DateTime(sprintf('-%d days', rand(1, 100))));
        
                    }
        
                    return new Response('space rocks... include comets, asteroids & meteoroids');
        
                }
        
            }

Perfect! Now... stop. I want you to notice that all we've done is create an Article object and set data on it. This is normal, boring, PHP code: we're not using Doctrine at all yet. That's really cool.

Saving the Article

To save this, we just need to find Doctrine and say:

Hey Doctrine! Say hi to Jon Wage for us! Also, can you please save this article to the database. You're the best!

How do we do this? In the last Symfony tutorial, we talked about how the main thing that a bundle gives us is more services. DoctrineBundle gives us one, very important service that's used for both saving to and fetching from the database. It's called the DeathStar. No, no, it's the EntityManager. But, missed opportunity...

Find your terminal and run:

php bin/console debug:autowiring

Scroll to the the top. There it is! EntityManagerInterface: that's the type-hint we can use to fetch the service. Go back to the top of the new() method and add an argument: EntityManagerInterface $em:

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Now that we have the all-important entity manager, saving is a two-step process... and it may look a bit weird initially. First, $em->persist($article), then $em->flush():

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It's always these two lines. Persist simply says that you would like to save this article, but Doctrine does not make the INSERT query yet. That happens when you call $em->flush(). Why two separate steps? Well, it gives you a bit more flexibility: you could create ten Article objects, called persist() on each, then flush() just one time at the end. This helps Doctrine optimize saving those ten articles.

At the bottom, let's make our message a bit more helpful, though, I thought my message about space rocks was at least educational. Set the article id to some number and the slug to some string. Pass: $article->getId() and $article->getSlug():

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                        $article->getSlug()
        
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Oh, and this is important: we never set the id. But when we call flush(), Doctrine will insert the new row, get the new id, and put that onto the Article for us. By the time we print this message, the Article will have its new, fancy id.

Ok, are you ready? Let's try it: go back to /admin/article/new and... ha! Article id 1, then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6! Our news site is alive!

If you want to be more sure, you can check this in your favorite database tool like phpMyAdmin or whatever the cool kids are using these days. Or, you can use a helpful console command:

php bin/console doctrine:query:sql "SELECT * FROM article"

This is article with a lowercase "a", because, thanks to the default configuration, Doctrine creates snake case table and column names.

And... yes! There are the new, 6 results.

We have successfully put stuff into the database! Now it's time to run some queries to fetch it back out.

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Skylar 6 years ago

Once again, you have made Symfony awesome for me, so let me shower some praise. ::shower::

I don't know if this is the right place for this question, but it is regarding Doctrine/MySQL and TimeZones. I was thinking that it would be great for all the DateTime's in MySQL to be in UTC, so that east/west coast programming would not have to deal with EST/EDT. So I googled for an answer for some kind of best practice and did not find a consensus.

I have relied on your Best Practice's and they have made my programming life so much easier (even when you make it more complicated :) ).

So I found these to articles:
https://www.doctrine-projec...
https://blog.bestcoding.net...

What are your thoughts on the subject and is this the best way to implement it. Or can it be "KNPUniversity'ed" up?

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weaverryan SFCASTS Skylar 6 years ago edited

Hey Skylar!

Ha! You just made my morning! I feel properly showered in praise - thanks ;).

So..... great question - probably there aren't a lot of answers... because it's complicated... so nobody knows what to say :). First, do you need to track timezones / handle timezones? What I mean is, do you have situations where a user enters a time in their local timezone, and you need to store it in the database? Or, are your dates more internal - e.g. createdAt dates, etc?

We only handle this in a few places in KnpU, but our solution is always to store dates in UTC. In the few places where our users need to enter a time (actually, this only happens in our admin), we make sure to convert the date from the user's timezone into a UTC DateTime before setting it on our entity. Ultimately, everything in the database is in UTC. IF we needed to re-render a date in a local timezone later (we don't have this requirement, but, if we did), we would just need to (A) know which timezone to convert to (which is why you see the timezone sometimes stored in the database - so you know how to convert it *back* later) and then (B) use that to convert the date when rendering it (but keep it in UTC on your entity). Heck, if you had an entity like Event that had a startDateTime field and a timezone field, you could add a new getStartDateInLocalTimezone() method that would create a new DateTime based on the startDateTime UTC and the timezone.

Does that help? Or is there still a missing best-practice piece?

Cheers!

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Skylar weaverryan 6 years ago

Storing all dates in the database in UTC was my conclusion too. So..... How can we modify the TimeStampableEntity Trait to do that? Or should we implement the conversion as described in the links?

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Skylar 6 years ago edited

Hey Skylar

I believe the "TimeStampableEntity" will grab your server's timezone by default, so if you want to always make sure that the date is in UTC, you could do it via a listener, or by creating your own TimeStampableEntity which internally will make that conversion.

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Dirk 6 years ago edited

I've been using Symfony and Doctrine for a few months now, but there's always been a couple of things about Doctrine that made me wonder.
In this example you have added the argument EntityManagerInterface $em to the new() method. Could you tell me why you choose the EntityManagerInterface over the EntityManager?

I usually use $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager(); somewhere in the method where i need it. This works, but my IDE tells me that in this case, $em is actually the ObjectManager. Can you explain what the differences are between these three classes (EntityManagerInterface, EntityManager and ObjectManager) and when to use which?

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Dirk 6 years ago edited

Hey Dirk

Great question!
The ObjectManager interface allows you to work with ORM and ODM, so if for some reason you are using both, or you are planning to switch one to another, then you should type hint your dependencies with "ObjectManager"
The "EntityManagerInterface" contain some specific methods for working with a ORM, like "createQueryBuilder"
and "EntityManager" is just the implementation of "EntityManagerInterface"

No matter what, whenever you can, you should use interfaces for type-hinting your dependencies

Cheers!

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Dirk MolloKhan 6 years ago edited

Hi Diego,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm still somewhat confused between the ObjectManager (which seems to actually be the interface?) and the EntityManagerInterface. From an example on the Symofony website:

    // you can fetch the EntityManager via $this->getDoctrine()
    // or you can add an argument to your action: index(EntityManagerInterface $entityManager)
    $entityManager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

When I use this method, $entityManager is actually the ObjectManager according to my IDE. When I use: public function new(EntityManagerInterface $entityManager) then $entityManager is the EntityManagerInterface according to my IDE. Is that correct? And if so, does it not really matter in most cases if you're only going to use the ORM? Sorry I ask this again, but it is really confusing to me.

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Dirk 6 years ago edited

Yes, you are correct , this line $this->getDoctrine()->getManager(); returns you an instance of ObjectManager interface, which is the main abstraction for woking with ORM and ODM, but as I said, if you are going full ORM, then you don't have to worry about it and type-hint your dependencies with EntityManagerInterface.
Oh, and if you are on Symfony3.3 or higher, then you should be using dependency injection all the time, in other words, do not use $this->getDoctrine() any more :)

Cheers!

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Oliver-W 1 year ago

Hi,
lets say I have a table for storing appointments. A user wants to save 4 appointments, same time and day of the week for the next four weeks.

When I get the first appointment from the form, I can save it without any problem. But,of course, when I change the date of this appointment and flush() it to the database, it changes the date of my first appointment.

So I thought I could make an $appointment2 = new Appointment(); Copy my first appointment on this new one ($appointment2 = $appointment1), change the date on the copy and flush() the copy. But, to my surprise, again my first appointment is changed.

What is the correct way to do this?

Thx
Oliver

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Victor SFCASTS Oliver-W 1 year ago edited

Hey @Oliver-W ,

Keep in mind that the date field is an object :) So, you want to "clone" that object before setting it to the 2nd appointment, otherwise you will set the same object to 2 different entities. And of course, changing the date in one appointment will automatically change the date in the second appointment because that's the same object :)

Basically, just clone the date with $appointment2Date = clone $appointment1Date where the $appointment1Date is a DateTime object from the form. It should do the trick :)

Also, I would recommend you to use datetime_immutable instead of simple datetime for all your dates - it's more "hipster" now :) You can read about the difference in the docs: https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/current/reference/types.html#datetime-immutable

Cheers!

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Meike H. 4 years ago

Hi, I just started the symfony 4 tutorial doctrine and the database. Creating ArticleAdminController.php and getting the first message in the browser to check the route worked. After finishing that controller with persist and flush I got the error "Attempted to load class "Article" from namespace "App\Controller".
Did you forget a "use" statement for another namespace?" I double checked for typos, but couldnt find any. Can anybody give me a hint about the error message.

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Meike H. 4 years ago edited

Hey Meike H.

You just need to add the use statement for you Article entity. In other words, add this at the top of your controller (after the namespace)


// App\Controller\YourController.php

use App\Entity\Article;
...

Cheers!

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Meike H. MolloKhan 4 years ago

Hey Diego,
thanks a lot! It worked. I retyped that section and phpstorm inserted the use-statement automatically. Don't know what went wrong the first time. Maybe I typed the function and didn't use the autocomplete hint.
And thanks to ryan and the symfonycast team for the great tutorials!

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Daniel P. 4 years ago

Unlikely that anyone is reading this, but if you are: There's no need to un-indent your Heredoc comments since PHP 7.3! As long as your start and end DOC markers are lined up it should all work fine.

https://laravel-news.com/fl...

And that includes using them within an array argument. How cool is that?

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Daniel P. 4 years ago

Cool! Thanks for sharing it.Cheers!

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Ralf B. 4 years ago

Oh, but we need to make sure this is unique... so just add a little random number at the end:

Bad luck. After 7 attempts --> Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry 'why-asteroids-taste-like-bacon311' for key 'UNIQ_23A0E66989D9B62'

Thx for the tutorials, I love them :)

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Ralf B. 4 years ago

Ha! wow! That's bad luck indeed. You may want to increase the range of your randomness :)

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Galen S. 6 years ago

Hello, thanks a lot for these great videos. I just have a slight suggestion, and that is perhaps at the end of each video or at the bottom of the script, can all the includes at the top of the page, which includes the namespace declarations and the use declarations be included?

For those of us who aren't using phpstorm, it is quite difficult to keep up with adding those into the file by hand if they aren't shown in the video. Taking the file itself from the finish directory of the included code doesn't always work because sometimes the file is completely different than how it is at the end of an episode.

Most of my mistakes have came from not included something and being confused why I'm getting an error but eventually I figure it out.

Thank you!

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weaverryan SFCASTS Galen S. 6 years ago edited

Hey Galen S.!

Thanks for the feedback! I try to be aware of users not using PhpStorm... but even still... yea, we rely on it to do a lot of us (and, even if you're aware of what it's doing, you still can't see the use statements!). I *may* have one suggestion for you - if you haven't noticed it already: all of the code for each chapter is included below each video in code blocks. We only show the "important" parts by default (which should at least *usually* include the use statements, etc) but you can click a button to "expand" and see the whole file. You'd probably still need, for example, 2 tabs open - so you can switch from the video to the code blocks, but I hope it will help. It's one of our solutions for this exact problem.

Let me know!

Cheers!

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Galen S. weaverryan 6 years ago

Oh my! You guys are great, and are already on it! I love these videos and this site. I hadn't noticed the "show all lines" button in the top right before, this is exactly what I needed, thank you!

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weaverryan SFCASTS Galen S. 6 years ago

Woohoo! SO happy this works for you :D. Now, keep going! ;)

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Maxim M. 6 years ago

Interestingly, you can specify the table name with any case in the command:
php bin/console doctrine: query: sql " SELECT * FROM ARTICLE"
php bin/console doctrine: query: sql " SELECT * FROM article"
php bin/console doctrine: query: sql 'SELECT * FROM "ARTIclE"'
And everything works perfectly!

I use PostgreSQL, that's how It behaves if I make queries not through Doctrine, but directly:
https://stackoverflow.com/q...

Probably Doctrine converts the query to lowercase?

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Maxim M. 6 years ago edited

Hey Maxim M.

That's interesting, I believe the `QueryBuilder` for PostgreSQL may have some logic for converting your query string into a proper PostgreSQL query

Cheers!

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Md mamunur R. 6 years ago

Hello, I'm facing this problems,

Attempted to load interface "NotExistingInterface" from namespace
"Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Tests\Fixtures\Validation".
Did you forget a "use" statement for another namespace?

Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\
ClassNotFoundException

in vendor\symfony\framework-bundle\Tests\Fixtures\Validation\Article.php (line 5)

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JuanLuisGarciaBorrego Md mamunur R. 6 years ago

Hey Rashid,

Hm, I only can think that you trying to use this "Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Tests\Fixtures\Validation\Article" class somewhere in your code, see this reference: https://github.com/symfony/...

I suppose you autocompleted a wrong namespace somewhere, try to find the place where you use that namespace. I think you need to replace it with "App\Entity\Article" one. Let me know if you still have this error.

Cheers!

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Md mamunur R. JuanLuisGarciaBorrego 6 years ago edited

Thanks JuanLuisGarciaBorrego ,
Now it's working...

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Michael T. 6 years ago

Got an error when i hit /admin/article/new at the end of the tutorial:
Type error: Argument 1 passed to App\Entity\Article::setPublishedAt() must be an instance of DateTimeImmutable or null, instance of DateTime given, called in /var/www/phptut/src/Controller/ArticleAdminController.php on line 46
Fixxed it by changing \DateTime to DateTimeImmutable in Line 46: $article->setPublishedAt(new \DateTimeImmutable(sprintf('-%d days', rand(1, 100))));

can u explain what happened here? Cheers

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Dirk Michael T. 6 years ago edited

Could it be that you have the "type" of "publishedAt" in your Article class set to "datetime_immutable"? So in article controller you see something like:
` /**

 * @ORM\Column(type="datetime_immutable", nullable=true)
 */

private $publishedAt;`

If so, that created the error, because you are setting this attribute to 'datetime_immutable' instead of 'datetime'.

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MolloKhan SFCASTS Dirk 6 years ago edited

Thanks Dirk!

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Dirk Dirk 6 years ago

And if that is the case, simply change 'datetime_immutable' to 'datetime'.

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Michael T. Dirk 6 years ago

Perfect! Thanks.
i wonder why it set it to datetime_immutable. Must have been some weird autocomplete when i created the entity.

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Dirk Michael T. 6 years ago

No problem. Yes, i'm pretty sure it happened with autocompletion, because datetime_immutable is actually a type you could use.

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RoyalShape 6 years ago

Just a side note: Windows users should use double quotes on sql command: "SELECT * FROM article"

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Victor SFCASTS RoyalShape 6 years ago

Hey Daniel,

Hm, interesting, thanks for sharing it with others. But why not single quotes? Do you see some errors?

Cheers!

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Maxim M. Victor 6 years ago

On Windows 10 in the standard cmd and in the terminal PhpStorm (which probably works on the basis of cmd):

php bin/console doctrine:query:sql 'SELECT * FROM ARTICLE'
Too many arguments, expected arguments "command" "sql".

In PowerShell or MINGW64 works with any quotes.

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Victor SFCASTS Maxim M. 6 years ago

Hey Maxim,

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I actually didn't know that quotes are so important on Windows. Windows console sucks and have weird behavior sometimes :/

Btw, I heard good feedbacks about this console emulator for Windows: https://github.com/cmderdev... . Just in case, maybe it might be useful for other users.

Cheers!

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What PHP libraries does this tutorial use?

// composer.json
{
    "require": {
        "php": "^7.1.3",
        "ext-iconv": "*",
        "composer/package-versions-deprecated": "^1.11", // 1.11.99
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "^1.6.10", // 1.10.2
        "doctrine/doctrine-migrations-bundle": "^1.3|^2.0", // v2.0.0
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.5.11", // v2.7.2
        "knplabs/knp-markdown-bundle": "^1.7", // 1.7.0
        "knplabs/knp-time-bundle": "^1.8", // 1.8.0
        "nexylan/slack-bundle": "^2.0,<2.2.0", // v2.0.0
        "php-http/guzzle6-adapter": "^1.1", // v1.1.1
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "^5.1", // v5.1.4
        "stof/doctrine-extensions-bundle": "^1.3", // v1.3.0
        "symfony/asset": "^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/console": "^4.0", // v4.0.14
        "symfony/flex": "^1.0", // v1.21.6
        "symfony/framework-bundle": "^4.0", // v4.0.14
        "symfony/lts": "^4@dev", // dev-master
        "symfony/twig-bundle": "^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/web-server-bundle": "^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/yaml": "^4.0" // v4.0.14
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "^3.0", // 3.0.2
        "easycorp/easy-log-handler": "^1.0.2", // v1.0.4
        "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.7", // v1.7.1
        "symfony/debug-bundle": "^3.3|^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/dotenv": "^4.0", // v4.0.14
        "symfony/maker-bundle": "^1.0", // v1.4.0
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "^3.0", // v3.1.2
        "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "^3.3|^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/stopwatch": "^3.3|^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/var-dumper": "^3.3|^4.0", // v4.0.4
        "symfony/web-profiler-bundle": "^3.3|^4.0" // v4.0.4
    }
}

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	namespace App\Controller;

	use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;
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	{
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	use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

	class ArticleAdminController extends AbstractController
	{
	/**
	* @Route("/admin/article/new")
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	class ArticleAdminController extends AbstractController
	{
	/**
	* @Route("/admin/article/new")
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	public function new()
	{
	return new Response('space rocks... include comets, asteroids & meteoroids');
	}
	}

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	use App\Entity\Article;
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	class ArticleAdminController extends AbstractController
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	public function new()
	{
	$article = new Article();
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	}
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	class ArticleAdminController extends AbstractController
	{
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	public function new()
	{
	$article = new Article();
	$article->setTitle('Why Asteroids Taste Like Bacon')
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	}
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	class Article
	{
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	/**
	* @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
	*/
	private $title;
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	public function setTitle(string $title): self
	{
	$this->title = $title;

	return $this;
	}
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	}

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	use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
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	public function new(EntityManagerInterface $em)
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	}