doctrine 2 many to many (Products - Categories)

Question

Hi I have a many to many relation between Items(Products) and categories and I implemented using these three entities:

1. Item Entity:

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Answer 1

First, you should rename ItemCategories by ItemCategory, since an instance of this item is only the link between 1 item and 1 category.

Then it's simple:

$item = new Item();
$em->persist($item);
$category = $em->getRepository('category')->find($id_category);

$itemCategory =new ItemCategory();
$itemCategory->setItem($item);
$itemCategory->setCategory($category);

$em->persist($itemCategory);