Question

Hey all. I am writing a program that will transform some data in our database, and then call Doctrine to build YAML files from said Mysql Database structure. I have Doctrine working from within PHP. However I can’t figure out how to call the CLI commands from within PHP. Following is the Doctrine 2 CLI command that does what I need.

php ./doctrine orm:convert-mapping –filter=”users” –from-database yml ./test

This command works from the Linux command line, but how to I do this same thing via Doctrine objects? I don’t want to just use the PHP exec statement to send a command to the shell. I wish to use the Doctrine object model.

Answer 1

Don!:

Apparently this is not a very common programming method. However, I have used Doctrine from PHP by calling it via the PHP EXEC command. I know you said that you would not like to do it this way. However, it actually works quite well. Below is an example of such a solution.

$cmd_string = "php ./doctrine orm:generate-entities --generate-annotations=1 --regenerate-entities=1 $this->entity_file_dir";
$result = array();
exec($cmd_string, &$result);

Hope this helps,
-Don!