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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​

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)%&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 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.