Connect from Symfony with Doctrine to Neon
Symfony is a free and open source PHP web application framework. Symfony uses the Doctrine library for database access. Connecting to a Lakebase Postgres database from Symfony with Doctrine is the sam...
Pre-built prompt for connecting Symfony applications to Lakebase Postgres using Doctrine ORM.
Symfony is a free and open-source PHP web application framework. Symfony uses the Doctrine library for database access. Connecting to a Lakebase Postgres database from Symfony with Doctrine is the same as connecting to a standalone Postgres installation from Symfony with Doctrine. Only the connection details differ.
To connect to a Lakebase Postgres database from Symfony with Doctrine:
Create a Neon project
If you do not have one already, create a Neon project. Save your connection details including your password. They are required when defining connection settings.
- Navigate to the Projects page in the Neon Console.
- Click New Project.
- Specify your project settings and click Create Project.
Configure the connection
In your
.envfile, set theDATABASE_URLto the Neon project connection string that you copied in the previous step.Bash DATABASE_URL="postgresql://[user]:[password]@[neon_hostname]/[dbname]?charset=utf8&sslmode=require&channel_binding=require"You can find the connection string for your database by clicking the Connect button in the Console nav. For more information, see Connect from any application.
Next steps
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