Automatic values for updated_at, created_at in Doctrine

Question

I want to make fields updated_at and created_at in my Doctrine entities to update automatically.

In Ruby on Rails models there

Answer 1

The most convinient solution for me is Timestampable feature of StofDoctrineExtensionsBundle.

Simple configuration and later you are able to make fields createdAt and updatedAt of Entity filled out automatically by adding two simple annotations like:

@Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation\Timestampable(on="create")

and/or

@Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation\Timestampable(on="update")

e.g.

/**
 * @var \DateTime
 * @Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation\Timestampable(on="create")
 * @Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Column(type="datetime")
 */
protected $createdAt;

/**
 * @var \DateTime
 * @Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation\Timestampable(on="update")
 * @Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Column(type="datetime")
 */
protected $updatedAt;

Without any redundant code in pure PHP.