Question

I’m working on a project where I never actually delete any records. I am trying to get Doctrine to set an entity to “deleted” (flag) on cascade. Here are two entities to illustrate the associations I have currently;

Model_Account

/**
 * @OneToMany(targetEntity="Model_Profile",mappedBy="Account")
 */
protected $Profiles;

Model_Profile

/**
 * @ManyToOne(targetEntity="Model_Account",inversedBy="Profiles")
 * @JoinColumn(name="AccountId",referencedColumnName="Id",onDelete="CASCADE")
 */
protected $Account;

When I delete an account, I wish all profiles associated with said account to be removed also, but only by having their “Deleted” flag set to true. I have no idea where to go from here. Do I need to tap into an event to override the default delete and just set my flag?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Set up Doctrine2 soft delete (there’s an extension for it) and then use Doctrine’s cascade operations instead of those at the RDBMS level by setting cascade={"remove"} on the entity.