Question

I’m following the documentation almost word for word, except for two adjustments which I believe are corrections.

First adjustment: I eliminate the redundant DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR in system/application/doctrine.php:

//this produces "...system/application//fixtures"
$config = array('data_fixtures_path'  =>  dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '/fixtures',

//Replaced with:
$config = array('data_fixtures_path'  =>  dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'fixtures',

The resulting paths appear correct.

Second adjustment: The generated models (e.g. models/User.php) don’t seem to load the base models that extend Doctrine_Record, so I add an explicit require() call to each model like so:

require('generated/BaseUser.php');

class User extends BaseUser { ... }

So, my current problem: When it comes time to build the tables for the first time:

$ ./doctrine build-all-reload
build-all-reload - Are you sure you wish to drop your databases? (y/n)
y
build-all-reload - Successfully dropped database for connection named 'mydb'
build-all-reload - Successfully created database for connection named 'mydb'
build-all-reload - Created tables successfully
SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'mydb.user' doesn't exist

Doctrine seems to happily empty tables, drop tables, drop databases, and create databases, but I can’t figure out why it won’t create tables. It clearly says Created tables successfully, but SHOW TABLES; returns “No tables found in database.”

Doctrine is using the same MySQL user that I am, which has ALL PRIVILEGES.

Any ideas why Doctrine can’t create tables? Hopefully I’m just blind and/or dumb.

Alternatively, is there I way I can just produce a file of SQL CREATE statements based on my yaml schema or models that I can run on my own to debug this issue?

Answer 1

Maybe you have already done it but not mentioning it but you MAY be missing all the required “loading” commands. Using require is not the best solution here.

Doctrine_Core::loadModels(realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/..') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'models');

This needs to be done for each directory that holds Doctrine related model files (models, basemodels, tables,…) since it does not work recursively. I had the very same problem and defining loadModels for each of my directories did the trick.