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🏁 Quick Start

Lets start building our application using Symfony and MongoDB Doctrine ODM.

Build a skeleton project​

We will start building a project called rentals.

composer create-project symfony/skeleton rentals

Install MongoDB Extension​

With MacOS, ensure that OpenSSL is installed on your system. You can install it using Homebrew with the following command:

brew install openssl

Next, install pkgconf using Homebrew, as mentioned in the Homebrew documentation:

brew install pkgconf

Once installed, you can start with mongodb driver installation for PHP

cd rentals
pecl install mongodb

Verify the php.ini file to point to the installed mongodb.so.

Install drivers​

composer require mongodb/mongodb
composer require doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle

Manually enable the bundle by adding the following line in the config/bundles.php file of your project, as mentioned in the documentation.

Create a src/Document directory for the entities defined in the next sections.

Configure the MongoDB ODM​

Add and edit the file config/packages/doctrine_mongodb.yaml and add the following content:

# config/packages/doctrine_mongodb.yaml
doctrine_mongodb:
    auto_generate_proxy_classes: true
    auto_generate_hydrator_classes: true
    connections:
        default:
            server: '%env(resolve:MONGODB_URL)%'
            options: {}
    default_database: '%env(resolve:MONGODB_DB)%'
    document_managers:
        default:
            auto_mapping: true
            mappings:
                App:
                    dir: '%kernel.project_dir%/src/Document'
                    mapping: true
                    type: attribute
                    prefix: 'App\Document'
                    is_bundle: false
                    alias: App


Install other dependencies​

Form​

composer require symfony/form

twig bundle​

composer require symfony/twig-bundle

Assets​

composer require symfony/asset

By the end of this page you will have​

A project structure like this:

.
├── composer.json
├── composer.lock
├── symfony.lock
├── src
│   ├── Controller
│   ├── Document
├── config
│   ├── packages
│   │   ├── doctrine_mongodb.yaml
│   │   ├── framework.yaml
│   │   ├── twig.yaml
│   │   └── routing.yaml
|   ├── bundles.php
├── public
│   ├── index.php

The necessary dependencies to start building a web application using Symfony and MongoDB ODM are now installed.