Is it possible to have behaviors in Symfony 2 entities, like in CakePHP? I'll try to explain what I need:
In some of my entities, I need to store who created or updated the record, when it was created or updated, at which company does it belongs and at which season does it belongs.
All these data is stored in the session, and I want to add it to the entity "magically", without adding these fields in the controller. With CakePHP I can create SeasonBehavior, mark some models/entities as they use the SeasonBehavior and when I persist a record from an entity marked with the SeasonBehavior the seasonId is updated.
Is it possible to do the same with Symfony2 and Doctrine 2? And if it's possible, do you know any tutorial or documentation explaining how to do this?
You need to create listener on your Persist action to do such things. Read the manual here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/doctrine/event_listeners_subscribers.html
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EasyAdmin 3 (Symfony)
Is it possible to use one CRUD Controller for write to one table and write some data to another table?
Your question is not really specific but you can override any CRUD action you want as cited in the documentation and persist data to other entities if you need to.
https://symfony.com/doc/current/EasyAdminBundle/crud.html#customizing-crud-actions
I have a Symfony app using multiple entities.
A third-party analytic tool plugs to my database to create reportings.
What I would like to achieve, is being able to update the Symfony entity from the frontend in order to add new fields to the database tables (in order to get the new fields showing up in the reporting tool).
Anyone has a idea on how to achieve that?
Thanks in advance.
If i understand correctly, you wan't to be able to add fields to your entity dynamicaly.
I don't know if this is doable and if so, it would probably be messy and unsecure.
What you can do however is using sub-entities with dynamic key => values fields.
You should have one main entity, an entity with the list of your dynamic fields, a many to many relation between your main entity and your fields entities and a third entity with the actual values from those fields.
DNN 9.1.1.
2sxc 9.14.
Is it possible to get userId or name of the user who last changed the entity and displays it in razor template?
Is it possible to get userId or name of the user who created the entity and displays it in razor template?
Is it possible to get entity history and displays it in razor template?
Also what about created and updated time of the entity?
Can someone give me some links to samples or documentation about this stuff?
Yes, accessing the owner is the right way - you'll have to work a bit to map it to DNN, but it's simple string splitting. Note that in some future release we'll probably change the owner mechanism to map to the guid instead of the ID, but that will still take a while and will be easy to adapt to once it happens.
Let's say I have a Setting entity with some fields like IntValue, dateValue, stringValue and some linked entities, like countries (ManyToMany to entity Country), languages (ManyToMany to Language) etc.
Settings are created by users and assigned to specific objects (not important here, but I wanted to clarify).
Now I suddenly need to have UserDefaultSetting, which will be the same, but with additional user field (ManyToOne to User entity).
I tried to extend existing Setting entity class with one more field added. The problem is, as I looked at the schema update SQL, it created new table for the new entity, but without all the tables needed to ORM connections (mostly ManyToMany). Just one table with "scalar" fields.
So previously I've had setting table with int_value, date_value etc. but also setting_country and setting_language tables, linking ManyToMany relations. After creating child entity, Doctrine created only user_default_setting table with int_value, date_value etc. and additionally user_id column, but I can't see any relation/link tables.
I know I should've been do it with abstract base entity class, but at the time I started, I didn't know that and now part of the project is on production (don't look at me like that, I blame the client) and I don't want to change that "base" class now. Can I inherit everything from non-abstract entity class in a way it will work?
UPDATE: everything explained. See Cerad's comment. Thanks!
im starting to implement some security features in my application. When initially trying to implement some ACL I came acress two questions I could not figure out:
Where to implement the setting of acl
I could do it in the controller action where my entities are created or on the entity itself with lifecyclecallbacks. For example I have a Group Entity which holds some Userentities. It is easier to set the view or edit access on a lifecyclecallback for all group entities. I would prefer to make my controller as slim as possible. Or is this a bad approach? I would need the security container in my entity. What is your approach to this?
How to check for related entities:
Extending my previous example, I have a Group and this group can hold some appointments. In my actions where the appointments are shown or edited, I only want to check for the group. This is mainly for using the "view" rights. Meaning if someone is in the Group which holds the appointment, the person should also be able to view the appointment. I would like to implement this with JMSExtraSecurityBundle and SecureParam, but I have no Idea how to do that.