Generate orm.yml mapping file from existing entity file in Symfony

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Is there a way to generate src\AppBundle\Resources\Config\doctrine\example.orm.yml file from an existing entity file src\AppBundle\Entity\Example.php, rather than use php bin/console doctrine:generate:entity to create a new entity?

This is such a useful feature for Symfony, however I was surprised to learn that Doctrine is removing this feature altogether soon! "...this feature to generate entities from existing databases will be completely removed in the next Doctrine version." symfony.com/doc/master/doctrine/reverse_engineering.html — Aaron Belchamber
– Aaron Belchamber, Commented Apr 2, 2018 at 16:50

Maxime Thévenot · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-01 10:01:22Z

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To Generate this file, you need something that doctrine can use to do it.

So if you have your database already up, you can do a

    php bin/console doctrine:mapping:import

but if you want to do it "code first", i guess you need to create the mapping information yourself and then use

    app/console generate:doctrine:entities <Your Bundle>
    app/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql
    app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

answered Apr 1, 2016 at 10:01

Maxime Thévenot

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Michael Millar Over a year ago

thanks, yes there's always the option to make an orm.yml file manually but I was hoping there was a command that converted an existing entity php file to a orm.yml file (with no db table existing before that)

Maxime Thévenot Over a year ago

if your entity already have mapping informations (annotations), you can try app/console doctrine:mapping:convert yml

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