Symfony2 - Updating an entity’s field when executing action in another entity’s Controller

Question

I need to update the field budget of my entity Client when inserting new data into the table Budget. Both have relationship oneToMany and manyToOne, respectively. I received suggestions to use the concept of OO to do this operation, so something more or less suggested this way for me:

if ($form->isValid()) {
    $manager->persist($form->getData());
    $manager->flush();

    $Client = $manager->find('PanelBundle:Client', $form['client_id']->getData()->getId());
    $Client->setBudget($manager->getRepository('PanelBundle:Budget')->getLastId());

    $this->addFlash('success', 'Novo orçamento adicionado');

    return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('panel_budgets'));
}

When seeing the exit of $Client, when assigned to the variable the method find, the field is displayed name of id respective, which is the id of Client selected by a select and passed to variable when submitting the form.

Even if no error occurs, this field is not updated when registering. I tried otherwise writing a specific function to update, looking for examples, but got invalid semantic errors.

How could I update the field budget when executing the method addAction of the entity controller Budget?

Answer 1

It’s all right in your code. You just forgot to persist the $Client and give the flush, the same way you do with the budget.

$Client->setBudget($manager->getRepository('PanelBundle:Budget')->getLastId());

$manager->persist($Client);
$manager->flush();