Put underscore in class names of Symfony2 entity

Question

I have actually finished a project using Symfony2, but my boss want that I change names of tables in the database. He wants to put underscore in the name of my tables, that means underscore in class names.

I tried to do this but it doesn't work. When I do that, I got an error that says: "The entity "entity" cannot be found in "another entity"".

I also try to rename class names without underscore to see if I was doing a mistake but no, that's working.

I search on the web and see maybe a reason who can explain that issue, here it is:

https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md#underscores-in-namespaces-and-class-names

So someone can tell me exactly how can I do to put underscore in my tables names with symfony?

Yoann Chambonnet Yoann Chambonnet · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-16T09:21:49

According to the doc you can separate your table name from your class name.

Just do this :

<?php
/**
 * @Entity
 * @Table(name="my_table_name")
 */
class MyPersistentClass
{
    //...
}

and that's all :)

I have to add that if you re-generate your data model with the app/console doctrine:schema:update --force command you won't destroy existing tables and data. Then you'll have to migrate data by hand from old tables to new ones.

Put underscore in class names of Symfony2 entity

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