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Introduction to Doctrine ORM Basics

This document introduces Doctrine ORM concepts and framework components. It discusses ORM basics and how Doctrine maps PHP objects to database tables through entities. It describes the EntityManager component which allows querying, persisting and updating entities. It also covers entity repositories which provide reusable data access methods and helper functions for entities.

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Introduction to Doctrine ORM Basics

This document introduces Doctrine ORM concepts and framework components. It discusses ORM basics and how Doctrine maps PHP objects to database tables through entities. It describes the EntityManager component which allows querying, persisting and updating entities. It also covers entity repositories which provide reusable data access methods and helper functions for entities.

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Doctrine Basics

Introducing ORM Concepts and Doctrine framework,


Entities, Repositories
Contents

• ORM Basics - Doctrine


• Entity Manager
• Entity Repository

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ORM BASICS - DOCTRINE

Doctrine DBAL, Doctrine ORM


What Is ORM?

• ORM - Object Relational Mapper


• Maps PHP objects to database table rows
• Database independent
• Has its own SQL-like language

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What Is ORM?
Doctrine ORM

• Map database row to PHP object called Entity


Doctrine ORM

• Doctrine entities should live in src/Entity directory


Doctrine ORM

• Doctrine Entity - Basic Mapping with Annotations


– @Entity - tells Doctrine the class represents database table
– @Column - the property represents database column
– @Id - set property as entity primary key
– @GeneratedValue - id generation mechanism
Doctrine ORM

• Doctrine Entity
Doctrine ORM

• Doctrine Entity
– Doctrine entities should only represent database table
structure
– Do not execute SQL queries from your entities
– Do not write heavy logic in your entity classes
Doctrine DBAL

• Data Base Abstraction Layer -


built on top of PDO
ENTITY MANAGER

QueryBuilder, Persisting and Updating Entities


EntityManager

• Manage entities - persist(), remove(), flush()


– createQuery() - allows us to execute DQL queries
– createNamedQuery() - allows us to execute named DQL
queries
– createQueryBuilder() - allows us to create queries using object-
oriented approach
Entity Manager

• Doctrine Query
Language – DQL
• Very similar to SQL
• With DQL we can
update, delete, select
entities, but not persist
• With DQL we select
objects instead of table
rows
Entity Manager

• Doctrine Query Builder


• Create query in object
oriented approach
ENTITY REPOSITORY

Entity Repository, Helper Methods


Entity Repository

• Makes your code reusable


• Isolates your queries from other logic
• Provides access to helper methods for each property of
your entity
Entity Repository Class

• Automatically created when executing:


php bin/console make:entity SomeClass

• Above command will generate Doctrine Entity and empty


repository class
Entity Repository Class

• Manually Configure repository Class in your entity


Entity Repository Class

• Extending
ServiceEntityRepository
allows us to access dynamic
helper methods for each
mapped entity property
• Now you have dynamic
method names for our entity
properties without writing
single line of code
Entity Repository Class

• How to access the EntityManager in your repository class


Summary

• Doctrine ORM
• Basic entity mapping
• DBAL
• Entity Repository

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