Question

I’m looking for a way to make doctrine using TIMESTAMP instead of DATETIME for MySql.

Additionaly I need to set ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as default values.

I would like to have the possibility to have all this code in PHP annotations to have everything in one central place.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

There is no such thing like using TIMESTAMP in mysql with Doctrine.
However, I fixed it myself but have to test it:

• Create a file: Doctrine\DBAL\Types\TimestampType.php
• Copy the code from TimeType.php into TimestampType.php
• Rename ‘Time’ to ‘Timestamp’ in the code
• Create a new constant, and add timestamp to the typesmap in: Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type.php
• Create function called getTimestampTypeDeclarationSQL in Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\AbstractPlatform.php
• And in that function, return TIMESTAMP

I’ve used yaml to create my Entities and Proxies, so use in yaml:

type: timestamp

I’m going to test this ‘fix’/’workaround’ now. I’ll let you know.