Symfony2+Doctrine: How to convert iso8859-1 to utf-8 and viceversa?

Question

We\'re building a Symfony2 app that\'s using an Oracle database. All the data in the DB is encoded as WE8ISO8859P15 (iso-8859-1), and all the website is encoded as utf-8.

Answer 1

I solve a similar problem with a MSSQL instance for convert from utf8 to latin1 and viceversa. I do the following step:

1. Define a custom DBAL Type
2. Initialise on the boot Bundle method (i think you can do in the config.yml too)
3. Use it as annotation on the entity field

This his the code:

DBAL CUSTOM TYPE

BUNDLE INITIALISATION

container->get('doctrine.orm.em_my_sqlserver_entity_manager');
            $conn = $em->getConnection();
            $conn->getDatabasePlatform()->registerDoctrineTypeMapping('Utf8String', 'utf8string');
        }
    }

}

AN EXAMPLE MAPPED ENTITY

Hope this help and hoping you find a better solutions too!!!