Doctrine, Symfony & the Database

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:database
• Database Configuration
• 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

• Installing Doctrine
• make:docker:database
• docker-compose & Exposed Ports
• docker-compose Env Vars & Symfony
• doctrine:database:create & server_version
• Entity Class
• Migrations
• Persisting to the Database
• Fetching Data & The Repository
• Entity objects in Twig
• "5 Minutes Ago" Strings
• Custom Repository Class
• DQL & The Query Builder
• Reusing Query Logic & Param Converters
• Automatic Controller Queries: Param Converter
• Smarter Entity Methods
• Request Object & POST Data
• Update Query & Rich vs Anemic Models
• Data Fixtures
• Foundry: Fixture Model Factories
• Foundry Tricks
• Sluggable: Doctrine Extensions
• Timestampable & Failed Migrations