README

Collection of extensions to the doctrine2 ORM

Features:

Controller Plugins
- EntityManagerProvider (entityManagerProvider) - Returns the orm_default entity manager
- AuthenticatedUserProvider (authenticatedUserProvider) - Gets the currently authenticated user (if any)
- InitFormPlugin (initForm) - Initializes forms that may need the entity manager. Also sets up a doctrine object hydrator.
DataFixtures
- AddIfNotPresentTrait - Helper trait to make it easy to only add fixture entities if they aren't already present in the database
Types
- UTCDateTime (utc_datetime) type as per Doctrine Cookbook. Be careful when querying from this
Gedmo Extensions
- Timestampable
  - Extends Timestampable extension to support UTCDateTime (utc_datetime). DoctrineExtensions\Gedmo\Timestampable\TimestampableListener should be used in place of Gedmo\Timestampable\TimestampableListener in config files
Hydrators
- Single Column Hydrator
ORM
- Repositories
  - SubclassRepositoryFactory that will return a repo that uses the most defined repo definition in the class hierarchy
- Traits
  - UTCTimestampableEntity - Timestampable behaviour using UTCDateTime
  - EntityManagerAwareTrait - Provides getters/setters for object to hold and instance of an EntityManager.
- Alias
  - A smarter alias to use with the doctrine query builder. Allows building / chaining of multiple aliases for subquries.

Skipper

To get The custom type working in skipper, you need to make a custom configuration file and include the following:

<ormd2-configuration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <orm-configuration name="Doctrine2">
  <data-types>
   <data-type name="utc_datetime"/>
  </data-types>
 </orm-configuration>
</ormd2-configuration>