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๐Ÿ Quick Start

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

Build a skeleton projectโ€‹

We will start building a project called rentals.

composer create-project symfony/skeleton rentals

Install MongoDB Extensionโ€‹

cd rentals
pecl install mongodb

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

Install driversโ€‹

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 ODMโ€‹

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)%&appName=devrel.content.php'
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 dependenciesโ€‹

Formโ€‹

composer require symfony/form

twig bundleโ€‹

composer require symfony/twig-bundle

Assetsโ€‹

composer require symfony/asset

By the end of this page you will haveโ€‹

A project structure like this:

.
โ”œโ”€โ”€ composer.json
โ”œโ”€โ”€ composer.lock
โ”œโ”€โ”€ symfony.lock
โ”œโ”€โ”€ src
โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ Controller
โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ Document
โ”œโ”€โ”€ config
โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ packages
โ”‚ย ย  โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ doctrine_mongodb.yaml
โ”‚ย ย  โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ framework.yaml
โ”‚ย ย  โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ twig.yaml
โ”‚ย ย  โ”‚ย ย  โ””โ”€โ”€ routing.yaml
| โ”œโ”€โ”€ bundles.php
โ”œโ”€โ”€ public
โ”‚ย ย  โ”œโ”€โ”€ index.php

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