Question

I have an entity Paper which is connected to the paper table in my project.
In this entity, I have a field title.

The problem is that the field title can have some html tags inside and I need to make some query on this field. The queryes are without html tags.

My idea was to create an extra variable in my entity: title_without_html:

protected title_without_html;

/**
 * Get title_without_html
 *
 * @return text
 */
public function getTitle_without_html()
{
    return  strip_tags($this->title);
}

And also in the constructor, I am creating the title_without_html.

Is this possible? If yes, how to do it properly. Actually, I am getting an error:

[Semantical Error] line 0, col 61 near ‘title_without_html’: Error: Class SciForum\Version2Bundle\Entity\Paper has no field or association named title_without_html

Answer 1

Your code miss a $, and you should avoid not camelCase methods (for consistency with the Doctrine2 generated ones).

Also, do not rely on the constructor: Doctrine2 do not call the constructor when fetching existing from the database.

This must work:

<?php

class Toto {

    public function getCleanTitle()
    {
        return strip_tags($this->getTitle());
    }
}

You don’t have to set a property for this instead you are calling this getter a lot of times (then, a property could be used for caching the result of strip_tags).