Add a column to an existing entity in Symfony

Question

I\'ve been playing around with Symfony on my web server and I\'ve been creating entity with doctrine for my database. I wanted to add a column to one of these entity... I wa

Answer 1

You definitely DO want to open the PHP/XML/YML file where your entity is defined and add the column there. Then, you use the commandline and say

console doctrine:schema:update

That way, your entity definitions are in sync with the database and your database gets updated.

Answer 2

Add new Column in Existing entity on Symfony. I have the same problem are there . after I long research best solutions are there.

solution work on Symfony 4

Example:

Blog entity already created inside one name column are there and I want to add description column. so simple enter

php bin/console make:entity Blog

After run this command you want to add new column

Answer 3

That's how it worked for me:

• add new vars, setters and getters inside the existing class:

    src-->AppBundle-->Entity-->YourClassName.php

• update the ORM File:

  src-->AppBundle-->Resources-->config-->doctrine-->YourClassName.orm.yml

• run bash command:

  php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force