Symfony 3: Doctrine & the Database

With already two courses checked off, you are primed and ready to put Symfony to work! And that's what this course is all about: making things more interesting by talking to the database with Doctrine.

Doctrine has a reputation for being tough to learn, and that's unfortunate, because it's an amazing tool. In this tutorial, we'll get you rolling with Doctrine: learn how to use it, how to get hard work done easily and how to avoid the common pitfalls that can make Doctrine hard:

• Creating entity classes
• Managing migrations
• Saving new data
• Querying for data
• Custom repositories
• Custom queries and the query builder
• Fixtures (Dummy data) using Faker

... and (like always) a lot more goodies are mixed in.

• Creating an Entity Class
• Database Config and Automatic Table Creation
• Inserting new Objects
• Adding More Columns
• Database Migrations
• Query for a List of Genuses
• Entities, Twig and the Magic dot Syntax
• Show them a Genus, and the 404
• Fixtures: Dummy Data Rocks
• Delightful Dummy Data with Alice
• Custom Alice Faker Function
• Custom Queries