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SymfonyCasts

Doctrine, Symfony 6 & the Database

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Overview

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After the first two courses, we're going to turn the volume to 11! Yup, it's database time!

This tutorial is all about Doctrine: a powerful ORM that will allow us to talk to a database from inside our Symfony app. With the power of PHP 8 & tools inside Symfony, Doctrine is not only the most powerful ORM in PHP, it's also a joy to work with. You are going to love it!

  • Booting a database with Docker via the Flex recipe system
  • Database config
  • Creating (and updating) Entities with make:entity
  • Generating & using migrations
  • Inserting new data
  • Fetching & Querying for data
  • Doctrine Repositories
  • Custom queries and the query builder
  • Fixtures (Dummy data) using Foundry
  • Relationships & Associations

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Syllabus

  • Installing Doctrine
  • docker-compose & Exposed Ports
  • Docker & Environment Variables
  • The "symfony console" Command & server_version
  • Entity Class
  • Migrations
  • Adding new Properties
  • Persisting to the Database
  • Querying the Database
  • Custom Entity Methods & Twig Magic
  • The Query Builder
  • Querying for a Single Entity for a "Show" Page
  • Param Converter & 404's
  • The Request Object
  • Updating an Entity
  • Flash Message & Rich vs Anemic Models
  • Doctrine Extensions: Timestampable
  • Clean URLs with Sluggable
  • Simple Doctrine Data Fixtures
  • Foundry: Fixtures You'll Love
  • Pagination
  • Forever Scroll with Turbo Frames

Taught by

Ryan Weaver

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