Doctrine won't join two columns- Using Symfony2 and Doctrine - php

Question

I have two tables:
Posts
id | title | content | user
Users
id | name
and I want to have user name in Posts collection. What am I doing wrong here? Do I have to write custom query to do this?
Right now I'm getting user's id in posts collection.
class Posts
{
...
/**
* #ORM\Column(name="user", type="text", length=250)
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Users", inversedBy="posts")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="user", referencedColumnName="id")
*/
protected $user;
...
User class:
class Users
{
/**
* #var int
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="text", length=250)
*/
public $name;
/**
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Posts", mappedBy="user")
*/
protected $posts;
...

Answer 1

you have an error in your $user relation annotation, you can't make a column be a regular #ORM\Column AND a #ORM\JoinColumn, try:
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Users", inversedBy="posts")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="user", referencedColumnName="id")
*/
protected $user;
this will give you the entity(referencedColumnName must be primary key), then you can do $user->getName();