When an API client makes a POST request to /api/users, we need to be able to run some code after API Platform deserializes the JSON into a User object, but before it gets saved to Doctrine. That code will encode the ...

All this Doctrine entity object stuff and DQL queries are really great. But if you ever feel overwhelmed with all of this or need write a really complex query, you can always fall back to using raw SQL. Seriously, this ...

... some Doctrine annotations: // src/Yoda/UserBundle/Entity/User.php // ... /** @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255) / private $email; Next, generate or write a getter and a setter for the new property. As a reminder ...

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... Doctrine supports a lot of functions inside DQL, but not everything. Why? Because Doctrine is designed to work with many different types of databases... and if only one or some databases support a function like RAND ...

... Excellent! And just like before - start with return $this->createQueryBuilder() with genus_note as a query alias. For now, don't add anything else: finish with the standard ->getQuery() and ->execute(): Doctrine doesn't ...

Doctrine will create a genus_id integer column for this property and a foreign key to genus. Use the "Code"->"Generate" menu to generate the getter and setter: Add a Genus type-hint to setGenus(): Yes, when we call ...

... /security.yml security: Try logging in now! Ah, a great error: The Doctrine repository “Yoda\UserBundle\Entity\UserRepository” must implement UserProviderInterface. The UserProviderInterface¶ Without the property, Doctrine ...

... listAction() and give it a route path of /genus: Remember, everything in Doctrine starts with the all-powerful entity manager. Just like before, get it with $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager(): To make a query, you'll ...

I want to add one more Doctrine-specific feature to our site: pagination. Right now, on the homepage, we're rendering every question on the site. That's... not very realistic. Instead, let's render 5 on each page with ...

... called timestampable, and Doctrine Extensions totally has a feature for it. Start by activating it in the config file: stof_doctrine_extensions.yaml. Add timestampable: true. Back at the browser, click into the Doctrine ...

... we were querying for too many items and so Doctrine was hydrating too many objects. Is it the same problem now? And if so, why? Can we optimize it? Time to put on our profiling detective hats. Let's follow the hot path ...

... the supermarket. Out-of-the box, Messenger supports three: amqp - which basically means RabbitMQ, but technically means any system that implements the "AMQP" spec - doctrine and redis. AMQP is the most powerful... but ...

... array and its Doctrine type is json. This is really cool. Newer databases - like PostgreSQL and MySQL 5.7 - have a native "JSON" column type that allows you to store an array of data. But, if you're using MySQL 5.6 or ...

... class name is prefixed by this weird Proxies stuff. When you see that, ignore it. A "Proxy" is a special class that Doctrine generates and sometimes wraps around your real entity objects. Doctrine does this so that it can ...

... composer.json file, being sure to only replace the core Symfony libraries, and not any custom lines you may have added. In this case, the doctrine-fixtures-bundle is custom, so I’ll leave it alone: "require": { }, Also, be sure ...

We created an entity class! But... that's it. The corresponding table does not yet exist in our database. Let's think. In theory, Doctrine knows about our entity, all of its properties and their ORM\Column attributes ...

... php bin/console app:author-weekly-report:send Ah! Explosion! Incorrect string value? Wow. Okay. What we're seeing is a real-world limitation of the doctrine transport: it can't handle binary data. This may change in ...

... favorite, always-excited astronaut commenter: Mike Ferengi: Then, $comment1->setContent(), and use one of our hardcoded comments: Perfect! Because we're creating this manually, we need to persist it to Doctrine. At the ...