Integrating Sylius packages into Laravel project - symfony

Question

I am attempting to use some Sylius packages in a Laravel project I'm building. I have added the packages to my project with composer, and the classes seem to be autoloading fine.
Now I want to do something with it. Let's take a simple example from the Sylius docs:
public function myAction()
{
$repository = $this->container->get('sylius.repository.address');
$manager = $this->container->get('sylius.manager.address'); // Alias to the appropriate doctrine manager service.
$address = $repository->createNew();
$address
->setFirstname('John')
->setLastname('Doe')
;
$manager->persist($address);
$manager->flush(); // Save changes in database.
}
I would like to recreate something like this in Laravel. I've created a simple test route to attempt this, but my problems are:
How do I get a repository?
How do I get a Doctrine manager service?
So I also included the laravel-doctrine package in an attempt to get a manager service, and then I just manually created a Product object, so that now I have:
Route::get('test', function() {
$entityManager = new Doctrine;
$product = new \Sylius\Component\Core\Model\Product;
$product->setName('Bla');
Doctrine::persist($product);
Doctrine::flush();
dd($product);
});
This creates an error: Class "Sylius\Component\Core\Model\Product" sub class of "Sylius\Component\Product\Model\Product" is not a valid entity or mapped super class.
I'm not sure where to go next. My understanding of Doctrine is limited, but my understanding was that the Sylius components are decoupled from Symfony, and that I could just use them. But it seems that the annotations (or xml definitions) don't exist for Doctrine to operate properly.
Any direction would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Laravel and symfony are completely different. You can't use a symfony bundle in a laravel project. If you want to use Sylius, you have to use the Symfony framework. If you want to use laravel, you have to search for another ecommerce platform.