Symfony2 ORM prePersist Not Working

Question

prePersist() method of my entity is not being invoked.

Answer 1

One issue is this function.

/**
 * Set active
 *
 * @ORM\PrePersist
 * @param boolean $active
 * @return Users
 */
public function setActive($active)
{
    $this->active = $active;

    return $this;
}

You can't pass arguments to functions when using @PrePersist.

Also this function

/**
* @ORM\PrePersist
* @ORM\PreUpdate
*/
public function prePersist(){

  $this->active = 0;
  $this->created = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
  $this->modified = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

}

fails because you are assigning a string value to DateTime fields. Try this:

/**
 * @ORM\PrePersist
 * @ORM\PreUpdate
 */
public function prePersist()
{

  $this->active = false;
  $this->created = new \DateTime();
  $this->modified = new \DateTime();

}