Ever wanted to create a simple dropdown of all the Entity classes you have mapped in Doctrine? I have! For a recent project I needed to create a sample API form and load the entity type first, so I needed a way to properly load every Entity that’s mapped programmatically and not with an ugly manually created array:
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use Doctrine\Common\Inflector\Inflector; private function getEntityChoices() { $choices = array(); $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager(); $meta = $em->getMetadataFactory()->getAllMetadata(); foreach ($meta as $m) { $r = new \ReflectionClass($m->getName()); $name = $r->getShortName(); $name = Inflector::tableize($name); $key = Inflector::pluralize($name); $choices[$key] = $r->getShortName(); } ksort($choices); return $choices; } |
For this, I also applied Doctrine’s Inflector so I could make the key value of my array the pluralized version of the entity name. This was useful for my purposes, but probably isn’t a standard use case. Most use cases I imagine would simply want the simple class name:
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$choices[strtolower($r->getShortName())] = $r->getShortName(); |
