Christophe, thank you for the advice! But what about the console? As far as I understand I am not able to use all the benefits of the custom mapping type until I have generated the entities and the DB schema. And, of course, this requires the type to be registered as well.
The must be a universal solution, and I hope that it will be added to the Symfony documentation. On Feb 1, 9:09 pm, Christophe COEVOET <s...@notk.org> wrote: > Le 01/02/2011 20:04, Alexander Kachkaev a crit : > > > > > Hello, guys! > > > Does anyone know how to integrate a custom doctrine mapping type into > > a Symfony 2 project? > > > There is a great documentation on how to do that simply using Doctrine > > (http://www.doctrine-project.org/docs/dbal/2.0/en/reference/ > > types.html#custom-mapping-types), but there is no information on the > > web about how to migrate the registration of the type into Symfony. > > > It is said that to register a type it is necessary to write the > > following: > > Type::addType('money', 'My\Project\Types\MoneyType'); > > $conn->getDatabasePlatform()->registerDoctrineTypeMapping('MyMoney', > > 'money'); > > > These lines must be written somewhere in a bootstrap code, e. i. src/ > > autoload.php to make the type available both from controllers and > > console. The key issue here is in the second line, which requires the > > connection to be defined. To get it a $entityManager->getConnection() > > can be called, and EntityManager can be taken from $this- > >> get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager') if we are in the controller. > > But how to get the reference to the EntityManager or any other > > resource object outside the controller (e. g. autoload.php)? > > A solution is to make that in the boot() method of your bundle. this > way, it will be done after the building of the container (so you can > access the connection) but before you use it. > > -- > Christophe | Stof -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
