Doctrine, Symfony & the Database

It's database time! After the first two courses, we are primed and ready to take our app up a level... or 10! This tutorial is all about Doctrine: a powerful ORM that will allow us to talk to a database from inside our Symfony app. Historically, Doctrine has sometimes had a reputation for being hard to learn. But with recent changes in the Symfony world, that's gone. You are going to love what Doctrine will let you do! Let's go! Booting a database with Docker via make:docker:database Database Configuration Creating (and updating) Entities with make:entity Generating & using migrations Inserting new data Fetching & Querying for data Doctrine Repositories Custom queries and the query builder Fixtures (Dummy data) using Foundry Relationships & Associations