Doctrine2: Best way to handle many-to-many with extra columns in reference table

Question

I\'m wondering what\'s the best, the cleanest and the most simply way to work with many-to-many relations in Doctrine2.

Let\'s assume that we\'ve got an album like

Answer 1

This really useful example. It lacks in the documentation doctrine 2.

Very thank you.

For the proxies functions can be done :

class AlbumTrack extends AlbumTrackAbstract {
   ... proxy method.
   function getTitle() {} 
}

class TrackAlbum extends AlbumTrackAbstract {
   ... proxy method.
   function getTitle() {}
}

class AlbumTrackAbstract {
   private $id;
   ....
}

and

/** @OneToMany(targetEntity="TrackAlbum", mappedBy="album") */
protected $tracklist;

/** @OneToMany(targetEntity="AlbumTrack", mappedBy="track") */
protected $albumsFeaturingThisTrack;