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It's database time! After the first two courses, we are primed and ready to take our app up a level... or 10!This tutorial is all about Doctrine: a powerful ORM that will allow us to talk to a database from inside our Symfony app. Historically, Doctrine has sometimes had a reputation for being hard to learn. But with recent changes in the Symfony world, that's gone. You are going to love what Doctrine will let you do! Let's go!Booting a database with Docker via make:docker:databaseDatabase ConfigurationCreating (and updating) Entities with make:entityGenerating & using migrationsInserting new dataFetching & Querying for dataDoctrine RepositoriesCustom queries and the query builderFixtures (Dummy data) using FoundryRelationships & Associations
Overview
Syllabus
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- 01. Installing Doctrine
- 02. make:docker:database
- 03. docker-compose & Exposed Ports
- 04. docker-compose Env Vars & Symfony
- 05. doctrine:database:create & server_version
- 06. Entity Class
- 07. Migrations
- 08. Persisting to the Database
- 09. Fetching Data & The Repository
- 10. Entity objects in Twig
- 11. "5 Minutes Ago" Strings
- 12. Custom Repository Class
- 13. DQL & The Query Builder
- 14. Reusing Query Logic & Param Converters
- 15. Automatic Controller Queries: Param Converter
- 16. Smarter Entity Methods
- 17. Request Object & POST Data
- 18. Update Query & Rich vs Anemic Models
- 19. Data Fixtures
- 20. Foundry: Fixture Model Factories
- 21. Foundry Tricks
- 22. Sluggable: Doctrine Extensions
- 23. Timestampable & Failed Migrations
