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
