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

FOR SYMFONY3 USERS...

here you have to follow two steps to make changes in your entity Step1: Open Your Entity File..For EX: "Acme\MyBundle\Entity\Book"

Current Entity is having few fields like:id,name,title etc. Now if you want to add new field of "image" and to make change constraint of "title" field then add field of "image" with getter and setter

/**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="image", type="string", length=500)
     */
    private $image;

And add getter and setter

/**
     * Set image
     *
     * @param string $image
     *
     * @return Book
     */
    public function setImage($image)
    {
        $this->image = $image;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get image
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getimage()
    {
        return $this->image;
    }

To update existing field constraint of title from length 255 to 500

/**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="title", type="string", length=500)
     */
    private $title;

Ok...You have made changes according to your need,And You are one step away.

Step 2: Fire this command in project directory

php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Now,check your table in database ,It's Done!!