Add a column to an existing entity in Symfony

Question

I\'ve been playing around with Symfony on my web server and I\'ve been creating entity with doctrine for my database. I wanted to add a column to one of these entity... I wa

Answer 1

You definitely DO want to open the PHP/XML/YML file where your entity is defined and add the column there. Then, you use the commandline and say

console doctrine:schema:update

That way, your entity definitions are in sync with the database and your database gets updated.