Doctrine mapping examples using PHPDriver

Question

I am learning Doctrine 2 for PHP, and I'm having trouble finding good resources to map using PHPDriver. There is extensive documentation on the use of annotations in comments for Doctrine mappings, however, I would prefer my PHP and NOT mapping definitions in comments (for obvious reasons).

I could use some examples mainly with association mapping. Documentation using annotations doesn't really help me much. Using those that I think leaves guesses through the trial version and an error on how to do this using PHPDriver.

Does anyone know of a good link out of hand? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you haven’t already seen this, the Doctrine manual now has a section on PHPDriver:

• PHP mapping

The manual is updated quite often, so keep checking for new topics. You can also directly refer to the API documentation:

• API Documentation

The general terminology and conventions used by all matching drivers are the same, so the main ideas should be translated. This is probably the syntax that will touch you.

I also recommend that you study the XML driver. With a good IDE, you can get confirmation and auto-completion through the xsd file, which will simplify the work. Manually writing PHP mappings personally amazes me as a bit time consuming.

Answer 2

PHP- , PHP, , , vs annotations/xml/yaml.

unittests (/Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Mapping).