Question

This is with Symfony2 and Doctrine2. I have this in my user entity:

public function getRoles()
{
    return $this->roles->toArray();
}

Yet however, it is returning:

 array(object(Role))

Any ideas where I can start looking? I’ve been debugging for a while.

Answer 1

This is the logical behavior ; by default, Doctrine2 returns a Collection object, and by calling toArray() you transform it into an array. But your array still contains Role objects, that are basically not strings. Of course, you can define your own methods to get it as a string, I think basically you just have to call Role::getRole().

Have a look at this article, it may help you.