symfony/doctrine-bridge

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A Symfony component that provides integration between Doctrine (ORM and DBAL) and various Symfony components such as forms, validation, security, and the dependency injection container. It is a core part of the Symfony framework's database tooling, used by millions of PHP applications.

Use cases

• use Doctrine entities in Symfony forms and validation
• connect Doctrine ORM to a Symfony application's service container
• manage database entities and repositories in Symfony
• integrate Doctrine with Symfony security user providers
• configure database connections via Symfony environment variables
• register Doctrine entity managers and DBAL connections in Symfony DI

When to choose

• you are building a Symfony application that uses Doctrine ORM or DBAL
• you need Doctrine entities to work seamlessly with Symfony forms, validation, or security
• you want framework-managed entity manager and connection configuration

When to avoid

• you use Laravel, Laminas, or another non-Symfony PHP framework
• you use Doctrine without the Symfony framework
• you need a standalone ORM rather than a framework integration layer

Facets

library · maturity stable

orm database middleware form-handling security web-development backend databases developer-tools php symfony doctrine integration-bridge entity-management dbal web-server

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