Doctrine 2 association without foreign key constraints

Question

I\'m in the process of converting a legacy PHP application to Symfony 2. The application data is not very consistent at the moment, so I would like to avoid creating foreign

Answer 1

I had to go through the same process recently and fortunately there is an easy solution, just add nullable=true to the column's annotation.

This will work as long as the existing data is valid, in my case I had to change 0's to NULL's and change keys that didn't exist anymore to NULL.