Symfony and Doctrine - getDoctrine not found - php

Question

I am trying to build a simple app
I have a database with a table "matches"the table structure
and i wrote this code as Entity
<?php
namespace AppBundle\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* #ORM\Entity
* #ORM\Table(name="matches")
*/
class Match
{
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="integer")
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="text", length=512)
*/
private $descr;
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
*/
private $team_a;
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
*/
private $team_b;
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
*/
private $location;
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="datetime")
*/
private $datetime;
/**
* Get id
*
* #return integer
*/
public function getId()
{
return $this->id;
}
/**
* Set descr
*
* #param string $descr
*
* #return Match
*/
public function setDescr($descr)
{
$this->descr = $descr;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get descr
*
* #return string
*/
public function getDescr()
{
return $this->descr;
}
/**
* Set teamA
*
* #param string $teamA
*
* #return Match
*/
public function setTeamA($teamA)
{
$this->team_a = $teamA;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get teamA
*
* #return string
*/
public function getTeamA()
{
return $this->team_a;
}
/**
* Set teamB
*
* #param string $teamB
*
* #return Match
*/
public function setTeamB($teamB)
{
$this->team_b = $teamB;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get teamB
*
* #return string
*/
public function getTeamB()
{
return $this->team_b;
}
/**
* Set location
*
* #param string $location
*
* #return Match
*/
public function setLocation($location)
{
$this->location = $location;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get location
*
* #return string
*/
public function getLocation()
{
return $this->location;
}
/**
* Set datetime
*
* #param \DateTime $datetime
*
* #return Match
*/
public function setDatetime($datetime)
{
$this->datetime = $datetime;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get datetime
*
* #return \DateTime
*/
public function getDatetime()
{
return $this->datetime;
}
}
and this as controller:
<?php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
use AppBundle\Entity\Match;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
class AddMatch
{
/**
* #Route("/addmatch")
*/
public function createAction()
{
$match = new Match();
$match->setDescr('Descrizione Partita');
$match->setTeamA('Squadra A');
$match->setTeamB('Squadra B');
$match->setLocation('a nice Gym');
$match->setLocation('12/12/2012');
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
// tells Doctrine you want to (eventually) save the Product (no queries yet)
$em->persist($match);
// actually executes the queries (i.e. the INSERT query)
$em->flush();
return new Response('Saved new match with id '.$match->getId());
}
}
but it dosent work and I get Not Found
What am I missing?
I am super n00b :(
thanks for your help

Answer 1

You have to extend the base symfony controller:
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
class AddMatch extends Controller
{
...
}
If, for some reason, you can't extend a controller, you still can use Doctrine entity manager. In that case you need to inject the service container and then get the entity manager with
$container->get('doctrine')->getManager();
You should thoroughly read the Symfony guide on Service Container.