dot-data-fixtures

Important

dot-data-fixtures is a wrapper on top of doctrine/data-fixtures

This package provides a CLI interface for interacting with doctrine/data-fixtures.

Executing fixtures will append data to the tables.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.1
• doctrine/data-fixtures => 1.5

Installation

Run the following command in you project directory

$ composer require dotkernel/dot-data-fixtures

Next, register the package's ConfigProvider into your application config.

\Dot\DataFixtures\ConfigProvider::class,

In doctrine.global.php (or your custom doctrine config file) add a new key fixtures, in the doctrine array, the value should be a valid path to a folder where your fixtures can be found.

Make sure the path is valid before proceeding to the next step.

Example

return [
    'dependencies' => [ ... ],
    'doctrine' => [
        ...,
        'fixtures' => getcwd() . '/data/doctrine/fixtures',
    ],
];

The last step is to register the commands. We can register the commands to work with the default CLI that doctrine provides us. Create a new php file bin/doctrine (if you don't already have this file feel free to copy it from the below example)

<?php

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Console\ConsoleRunner;
use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Console\EntityManagerProvider\SingleManagerProvider;

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$container = require getcwd() . '/config/container.php' ;

$entityManager = $container->get(\Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::class);

$commands = [
    $container->get(Dot\DataFixtures\Command\ExecuteFixturesCommand::class),
    $container->get(Dot\DataFixtures\Command\ListFixturesCommand::class),
];

ConsoleRunner::run(
    new SingleManagerProvider($entityManager),
    $commands
);

Usage

List fixtures command - will list all the available fixtures, by order of execution.

php bin/doctrine fixtures:list

Execute fixtures command - this command will execute all or one fixture.

• To execute all the fixtures run :

php bin/doctrine fixtures:execute

• To execute a specific fixture run :

php bin/doctrine fixtures:execute --class=RoleLoader

Creating fixtures

When creating a new fixture we have 2 requirements :

• Fixtures should be created in the folder we configured earlier. data/doctrine/fixtures
• Fixtures should implement FixtureInterface and have a load method.
• Create a new php file and copy the below code-block.

Example

<?php

namespace Frontend\Fixtures;

use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\FixtureInterface;
use Doctrine\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use Frontend\User\Entity\UserRole;


class RoleLoader implements FixtureInterface
{
    public function load(ObjectManager $manager): void
    {
        $adminRole = new UserRole();
        $adminRole->setName('admin');

        $userRole = new UserRole();
        $userRole->setName('user');
        
        $guestRole = new UserRole();
        $guestRole->setName('guest');
        
        $manager->persist($adminRole);
        $manager->persist($userRole);
        $manager->persist($guestRole);

        $manager->flush();
    }
}

Ordering fixtures

Fixtures can we ordered using 2 methods :

• by order
• by dependencies

Please refer to this link for further details on ordering fixtures:

https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-data-fixtures/en/latest/how-to/fixture-ordering.html#fixture-ordering