Easy Doctrine Extensions will make you happy

Apr 27, 2011 − If you're following our little life at Knp, you probably know that Gediminas (aka l3pp4rd) has been working with us in France for the past 2 months. It's time to get to know his work a little better!

If you're following our little life at Knp, you probably know that Gediminas (aka l3pp4rd) has been working with us in France for the past 2 months. It's time to get to know his work a little better!

With the community's help, Gediminas has been creating and maintaining some very nice − and popular − extensions for Doctrine2.

• Sluggable - urlizes a given field into a single unique slug
• Timestampable - updates date fields when your object is created, updated and even when a specific property is changed
• Tree - this extension automates the tree handling process and adds some tree specific functions to the repository. (closure or nestedset)
• Translatable - gives you a very handy solution for translating records into different languages. Easy to setup, easier to use.
• Loggable - helps tracking changes and history of objects, also supports version management.

Here's the really good news:

• it's easy to use. A simple annotation in your model or a little YML file will add the desired behaviour and make you happy.
• it's damn quick. Let's keep performances in mind so that you can use these extensions in your big beautiful projects.
• If you're a Mongo fan. Please know that the DoctrineExtensions do support both the Doctrine2 ORM and the Doctrine2 ODM.

Quick examples:

<?php

class Post
{
    /**
    * @gedmo:Sluggable
    * @Column(length=64)
    */
    private $title;

    /**
    * @gedmo:Slug
    * @Column(length=64, unique=true)
    */
    private $slug;

    /**
     * @gedmo:Timestampable(on="create")
     * @Column(type="datetime")
     */
    private $created;
}

Easy, isn't it?

If you want to know more, check out the Github repository, read the docs in the docs folder, and give Gediminas some love!