How do I change symfony 2 doctrine mapper to use my custom directory instead of my Entity Directory under the bundle

Question

I use doctrine in my symfony 2.3 application. I want to use a folder structure like

/MyBundleName/User/User.php

for my Entities.

Answer 1

Just to follow up a bit on @Imanol's correct answer, it is possible to have your entities in multiple directories under one entity manager:

doctrine:
  orm:
    default_entity_manager:       default
    auto_generate_proxy_classes: %kernel.debug%

    entity_managers:

        default:
            connection: default
            mappings:

        test01:
            connection: test01
            mappings:
              product:
                type:      yml
                dir:       %kernel.root_dir%/../src/Cerad/Bundle/Test01Bundle/Product
                prefix:    Cerad\Bundle\Test01Bundle\Product
                alias:     Product
                is_bundle: false
              user:
                type:      yml
                dir:       %kernel.root_dir%/../src/Cerad/Bundle/Test01Bundle/User
                prefix:    Cerad\Bundle\Test01Bundle\User
                alias:     User
                is_bundle: false

Don't worry about the is_bundle: false entries. The entities can still live in a bundle. Doctrine does not care. And in case you are wondering, the alias parameter lets you do things like:

$repo = $em->getRepository("Product:Product");

Answer 2

you can tell Doctrine the directory where is your entities

doctrine:
orm:
    auto_generate_proxy_classes: %kernel.debug%
    auto_mapping: false
    mappings:
        name:
            type: php
            dir: %kernel.root_dir%/../src/Company/CartoDBBundle/Tests/CartoDB/Entity

Here you have the full documentation Doctrine configuration

I made a similar question a few days ago, there you can read the full answer Cedar gave me
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Answer 3

I've spent some time trying to figure out the simplest case. This is how I made it work:

doctrine:
    orm:
        auto_generate_proxy_classes: "%kernel.debug%"
        auto_mapping: true
        mappings:
            AppBundle:
                mapping: true
                type: annotation
                dir: Model
                alias: AppBundle
                prefix: 'AppBundle\Model'
                is_bundle: true

I simply wanted to store my entities in a directory called 'Model' inside my bundle, instead of the default 'Entity'.