Using Propel ORM in my own custom classes

Question

I am refactoring a few classes I wrote a while ago, into my Symfony project (v1.3.2 with Propel ORM).

The classes originally used direct connections to the database, I want to refactor those classes (stored in $(SF_LIB_DIR)) so that I can call propel and also use the ORM objects.

To clarify, So for example, I want to be able to use code like this in my custom classes:

try {
$con = Propel::getConnection();
$c = new Criteria();
$foo = new PropelORMFooObject();
$foobar =  PropelORMFooBarObjectPeer::fetch($c);

//set fields etc
$foo->setFooBar($foobar);

// now save using obtained connection ..
$foo->save($con)
}catch(SomeException $e)
{
  //deal with it
}

I assume that I will need to add some require_once() statements to my custom libraries, but it is not clear which files to include. Does anyone know how to do this?

Peter Bailey Peter Bailey · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-19T16:12:51

I'm not sure what you're getting at. As long as your executing this code from within a symfony application, the Propel classes will be brought into the execution context by the autoloader.

Are you actually getting "class not defined" errors?

Using Propel ORM in my own custom classes

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