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Doctrine ORM

This step saves the database connection credentials in an API configuration file. We do not cover the creation steps of the database itself.

Setup database

Create a new MariaDB/MySQL database and set its collation to utf8mb4_general_ci.

Make sure you fill out the database credentials in config/autoload/local.php under $databases['default']. Below is the item you need to focus on:

$databases = [
    'default' => [
        'host'     => 'localhost',
        'dbname'   => 'my_database',
        'user'     => 'my_user',
        'password' => 'my_password',
        'port'     => 3306,
        'driver'   => 'pdo_mysql',
        'charset'  => 'utf8mb4',
        'collate'  => 'utf8mb4_general_ci',
    ],
    // you can add more database connections into this array
];

my_database, my_user, my_password are provided only as an example.

Creating migrations

Create a database migration by executing the following command:

php ./vendor/bin/doctrine-migrations diff

The new migration file will be placed in src/Core/src/App/src/Migration/.

Running migrations

Run the database migrations by executing the following command:

php ./vendor/bin/doctrine-migrations migrate

If you have already run the migrations, you may get the below message:

WARNING! You have x previously executed migrations in the database that are not registered migrations.
  {migration list}
Are you sure you wish to continue? (y/n)

In this case, you should double-check to make sure the new migrations are ok to run.

When using an empty database, you will get this confirmation message:

WARNING! You are about to execute a migration in database "<your_database_name>" that could result in schema changes and data loss. Are you sure you wish to continue? (yes/no)

Hit Enter to confirm the operation. This will run all the migrations in chronological order. Each migration will be logged in the migrations table to prevent running the same migration more than once, which is often not desirable.

If everything ran correctly, you will get this confirmation.

[OK] Successfully migrated to version: Core\App\Migration\VersionYYYYMMDDHHMMSS

Executing fixtures

Fixtures are used to seed the database with initial values and should be executed after migrating the database.

To list all the fixtures, run:

php ./bin/doctrine fixtures:list

This will output all the fixtures in the order of execution.

To execute all fixtures, run:

php ./bin/doctrine fixtures:execute

To execute a specific fixture, run:

php ./bin/doctrine fixtures:execute --class=FixtureClassName

More details on how fixtures work can be found on dot-data-fixtures documentation