how to generate entities and schemas for enum in symfony

Question

i am trying to generate entities for my contact information. for that i have first create Entity with the following syntax used where i have created one enum field. ``` php app/console doctrine:generate:entity --entity="BannerTestBundle.contact" --fields="name:string(255) lastname:string(255) phone:integer(10) gender:enum("male","female") message:text". ``` The above command generate the entity class but when i am trying to generate "entities" from the class it will show error the command is. ``` php app/console doctrine:generate:entities Banner/TestBundle/Entity/contact ``` it will show the following error. ``` [Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationException] [Semantical Error] Couldn't find constant male, property Banner\TestBundle\ Entity\contact::$gender. doctrine:generate:entities [--path="..."] [--no-backup] name ``` i want to generate database with following fields: ``` Contact.table Name-string(255) LastName-string(255) Phone:integer(10) gender:enum("male","female") message:t…

Accepted Answer

Your annotation is not in the right format. Try this :

```
@ORM\Column(name="gender", type="string", columnDefinition="enum('male', 'femelle')")
```

And do not forget to add

```
mapping_types:
    enum: string
```

below

```
doctrine:
     dbal:
        driver:   %database_driver%
        host:     %database_host%
        port:     %database_port%
        dbname:   %database_name%
        user:     %database_user%
        password: %database_password%
        charset:  UTF8
```

in the `app/config/config.yml` file.

More information about enum in doctrine here.

how to generate entities and schemas for enum in symfony

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