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

Unidirectional. Just add the inversedBy:(Foreign Column Name) to make it Bidirectional.

# config/yaml/ProductStore.dcm.yml
ProductStore:
  type: entity
  id:
    product:
      associationKey: true
    store:
      associationKey: true
  fields:
    status:
      type: integer(1)
    createdAt:
      type: datetime
    updatedAt:
      type: datetime
  manyToOne:
    product:
      targetEntity: Product
      joinColumn:
        name: product_id
        referencedColumnName: id
    store:
      targetEntity: Store
      joinColumn:
        name: store_id
        referencedColumnName: id

I hope it helps. See you.