Liip Blog: Table Inheritance with Doctrine
On the Liip blog there's a recent post looking at table inheritance with Doctrine, the popular PHP ORM tool. In the post, Daniel Barsotti talks about a database model that needed some updating due to...
View ArticleGotoTech.com: Developer Diary: Taming Doctrine's 2000 Flushes
In this new post to the GotoTech.com blog Eric Burns talks about a way he's "tamed Doctrine's 2000 flushes" with a wrapper around the EntityManager to make controlling the database flushes simpler....
View ArticleJeremy Cook's Blog: Normalising DateTimes with Doctrine Events
Jeremy Cook has written up a new post showing you a method for normalizing the date and time information in your application (DateTime) with the help of Doctrine's own event listeners. The solution we...
View ArticleMatthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: On Visibility in OOP
Matthew Weier O'Phinney has a new post to his blog today looking at visibility in OOP in PHP - less about the features the language offers and more about the theory of their use. I'm a big proponent...
View ArticleTill Klampaeckel: Continuous Integration: Automated database setup with...
Till Klampaeckel has a new post to his site showing how you can use the external continuous integration system Travis-CI to handle automated database testing for your PHP app using Doctrine. Testing...
View ArticleJeune Asuncion: ZF1.11 + Doctrine 2 + Symfony DI Integration
In this new post to his site Jeune Asuncion shows how he integrated several technologies to make for a robust system - Zend Framework (1.11), Doctrine 2 and the Symfony dependency injection system....
View ArticleJake Bell: PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea
In his latest post Jake Bell talks about why he thinks annotations in PHP are a bad idea (not the concept of them, but how developers are currently using them. He's in favor of officil support...
View ArticleMichael Nitschinger: Caching Doctrine Entities with Couchbase
Michael Nitschinger has a new post to his site today showing how you can cache the entities you've created with Doctrine using Couchbase as a simple caching tool. As part of our ongoing efforts to...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Handling several DBALs in Symfony2 through the Dependency...
Gonzalo Ayuso has a second post in his series looking at using the Symfony2 dependency injection container with Doctrine functionality. In his previous post he talked about sharing PDO connections via...
View ArticleBenjamin Eberlei: Doctrine and SOLID
Benjamin Eberlei has a new post to his site today answering a question he sometimes gets about using Doctrine2 in a SOLID context (more on SOLID development here) as it seems difficult to follow the...
View ArticleDavid Adams: Is ORM abstraction a pipe dream?
David Adams has published a recent post that wonders if ORM abstraction is a "pipe dream" when it comes to abstraction. ORM stands for "object relational mapper" and is commonly used as a layer...
View ArticleKristopher Wilson: Decoupling the Framework
Kristopher Wilson has a new post to his site talking about something that could be very difficult with an existing application (and a good starting place for a new one) - decoupling from the...
View ArticleBenjamin Eberlei: Feature Flags and Doctrine Entities
In a new post to his site Benjamin Eberlei takes a look at the idea of "feature flags" (settings to turn on and off major features) and how they can be used with Doctrine entities to handle sync...
View ArticleDoctrine Project: Our HHVM Roadmap
The Doctrine project has posted an update about the work being done in collaboration with and to help its performance with HHVM (the HipHop VM from Facebook) and talking about their future plans....
View ArticleRoss Tuck: Persisting Value Objects in Doctrine
Ross Tuck has submitted a new article he's posted about persisting value objects in the popular PHP database storage and object mapping library, Doctrine. Value objects are immutable objects that "...
View ArticleMatthias Noback: Inject a repository instead of an entity manager
Matthias Noback has made a recommendation in his latest post about using a repository rather than an entity manager in your classes to inject dependencies. It appears that I didn't make myself clear...
View ArticleWeb Mozarts: Defining PHP Annotations in XML
The Web Mozarts blog has an interesting new post today that talks about using annotations in your PHP code to define the attributes in resulting XML that could be generated dynamically from your...
View ArticleRob Allen: Using Doctrine Migrations as a standalone tool
Rob Allen has a recent post to his site showing you how you can use Doctrine migrations as a standalone tool for its migrations functionality. Migrations allow you to script the setup of your...
View ArticleRob Allen: Registering Doctrine Type Mappings for standalone migrations
In a previous post Rob Allen showed you how to use Doctrine migrations as a standalone tool in your applications. In this new post he takes that a step further and shows you how to use the type...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Using Traits in Doctrine Entities
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a recent post showing you how to use traits with Doctrine entities. PHP's traits allow for the inclusion of functionality into a class without having to extend...
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