How to set up entity (doctrine) for database view in Symfony 2

Question

Lets say i have a view table. And i want to get data from it to an entity. Can i (and how) create entity class to do that. (no save operation needed). I just want to display

Answer 1

In addition to above anwers if you are using doctrine migrations for schema update the following configuration works perfectly.

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(readOnly=true)
 * @ORM\Table(name="view_table_name")
 */
class YourEntity {
    private function __construct() {}
}

Till here is te same as above answers. Here you need to configure doctrine not to bind schemas;

doctrine:
    dbal:
        schema_filter: ~^(?!view_)~

The above filter definition filters all 'view_' prefixed tables as well as views an could be extended using regex. Just make sure you have named your views with 'view_' prefix.

But doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql still shows the views, I hope they will integrate the same filter to schema update too.

I hope this solution would help some others.

Source: http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/DoctrineMigrationsBundle/index.html#manual-tables