Doctrine, Symfony 6 & the Database

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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• 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