Doctrine: DATETIME default NOW()

Steven Lloyd Watkin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:30:04 +0000

I’ve been struggling with setting up a database schema for a new Zend Framework project. I’m ~~using~~ trying to use Doctrine ORM for my database models. I need to set up the schema so that it allowed me to set a default date and time for a `datetime` column, e.g. when adding a new message I get the current timestamp. After much searching and experimenting I found the solution so I’m sharing it.

In your schema YAML file simply do the following:

Message:
  actAs:
    Timestampable:
      created:
        name: created_at
        type: timestamp
        format: Y-m-d H:i:s
      updated:
        name: last_updated
        type: timestamp
        format: Y-m-d H:i:s
  columns:
    id:
      type: integer
      primary: true
      autoincrement: true
    name: string(255)
    email: string(300)
    message: string(2000)

If on the other hand you don’t want an `updated_at` column you can use the following:

Message:
  actAs:
    Timestampable:
      created:
        name: created_at
        type: timestamp
        format: Y-m-d H:i:s
      updated:
        disabled: true
  columns:
    id:
      type: integer
      primary: true
      autoincrement: true
    name: string(255)
    email: string(300)
    message: string(2000)

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