Where to encrypt/decrypt my data?

Question

I\'m using Symfony 2 with Doctrine 2.

I need to encrypt a field in my entity using an encryption service, and I\'m wondering where should I put this logic.

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Answer 1

richsage's answer was pretty good, except I wouldn't register the custom type in the bundle class file. It's recommended that you use the config.yml like so:

# ./app/config/confi
doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver:   "%database_driver%"
        {{ etc, etc }}
        types:
            encrypted_string: MyCompany\MyBundle\Type\EncryptedStringType

Then just make sure in your EncryptedStringType class you specify the getName function to return encrypted_string.

Now in your model definition (or annotation) you can use the encrypted_string type.