About Course

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Detailed Course Outline

Doctrine Overview

This unit includes the following topics:

• Doctrine Overview
• Doctrine Project
• Database Abstraction Layer
• Object Relational Mapping
• Doctrine Terminology
• Doctrine EntityManager Overview
• EntityManager Overview Continued
• Entity Classes
• Entity Class Example
• Query Builder
• Query Builder Example
• Doctrine Database Considerations
• Doctrine Considerations

Doctrine Installation

In this unit you will learn how to install the Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM) component.

This unit includes the following topics:

• Doctrine Installation
• Doctrine Installation Overview
• Doctrine Installation Steps
• Confirm Doctrine ORM Installation

Doctrine CLI Configuration

This unit covers what you need to do in order to run Doctrine ORM command line interface (CLI) tools.
Topics include:

• Basic Mapping Concepts
• Brief EntityManager Overview
• bootstrap.phpfile
• cli-config.phpfile
• Running the CLI Tools

This unit includes the following topics:

• Doctrine CLI Configuration
• Doctrine Basic Mapping
• CLI bootstrap.php File
• CLI bootstrap.php File Example
• CLI cli-config.php File
• Doctrine ORM CLI Tools
• vendor/bin/doctrine

Entity Classes

This unit focuses on a core development area: the Entity class

This unit includes the following topics:

• Entity Classes Intro
• What is an Entity Class?
• Entity Class Properties
• Entity Class Methods
• Entity Class Methods Example
• Entity Class Methods Example
• Entity Class Methods Example Continued
• Entity Auto-Generation: Convert Mapping
• Entity Convert Mapping Example
• Convert Mapping Example Continued
• Entity Auto-Generation Options: Generate Entities
• Entity Auto-Generation Example
• Lab: Entity Classes

Doctrine Annotations

One way Doctrine ORM is able to provide mapping information between entity properties and database columns is to use annotations.

This unit includes the following topics:

• Doctrine Annotations
• Doctrine Annotations Overview
• Doctrine Annotations Alias
• Types of Annotations
• Class Annotations
• Property Annotations
• Property Annotations Example
• @NamedNativeQueries
• @SqlResultSetMappings
• Auto-Generation of Entities with Annotations
• Lab: Annotations

Entity Repositories

This unit includes the following topics:

• Entity Repositories
• What is a Repository?
• Repository Query Methods
• Repository Find Methods
• Repository Usage Example
• Lab: Repositories

Doctrine Relationships

One of the main reasons developers choose to use Doctrine ORM is its ability to (relatively) easily model relationships between tables.

This unit includes the following topics:

• Doctrine Relationships
• Relationships Overview
• Relationships Overview Continued
• Relationship Types
• Relationship Annotations
• Doctrine Relationships Example
• One to Many Relationship Example: Events
• One to Many Relationship Example: Hotels
• One to Many Relationships
• @ManyToOne Example
• One to Many Relationships: Getting Results
• Getting Results Example
• Lab: Relationships
• Lab: Relationships: Signup Entity
• Lab: Relationships: Signup Entity Continued
• Lab: Relationships: Calling Logic