Question

It’s a bit tedious writing the whole path to the Entity when calling getRepository(). Especially in Symfony2 where it would be Acme\FooBundle\BarEntity. Is it possible to make it so you only have to specify the Entity name?

Answer 1

I’m adding a static method to my entities like this:

public static function getEntityName()
{
  return get_called_class();
}

then

use Acme\FooBundle\BarEntity;

$repo = $em->getRepository(BarEntity::getEntityName());