How to automatically create tables in Doctrine?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon,

is it possible to somehow force Doctrine (the latest stable) to automatically create tables (as well as fields in existing tables) for entities?

* Even if I myself have to describe somewhere the correspondence of database field types to Doctrine field types

Answer 1

Such code can be used anywhere, not necessarily in Symfony, for example in Silex / Slim. In production, it should not, of course, be executed. An important point: in the database it will leave only those tables that are listed in $classes, the rest will crash.

// \Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager $em
$tool = new \Doctrine\ORM\Tools\SchemaTool($em);
$classes = array(
    $em->getClassMetadata('Entities\Page'),
    $em->getClassMetadata('Entities\Catalog'),
    $em->getClassMetadata('Entities\CatalogOption'),
    $em->getClassMetadata('Entities\WebForm'),
);
$tool->updateSchema($classes);

Answer 2

of course it is possible. Not automatically, but on demand.
dock in native
docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.0.x/reference/tools.html
dock in Russian, implementation in symfony2
symfony-gu.ru/documentation/ru/html/book/doctrine .html
examples
habrahabr.ru/post/125469/