Doctrine not saving column after join relationship was added - php

Question

I'm using doctrine and I added a join to an entity. After the join a setter (setcustomerorderID) is no longer being saved when they data is saved to the database. Every other column gets saved. The join is correct and $this->data->orderId is set.
The code works without the join.
I added the relationship as follows:
/**
* #var orders
*
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="FYP\CartBundle\Entity\Orders", inversedBy="CustomerDesign")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="customerorder_id", referencedColumnName="orderID")
*/
private $orders;
On the reverse side:
/**
* #var customerDesign
*
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="FYP\BaseDesignBundle\Entity\CustomerDesign", mappedBy="orders")
*/
private $customerDesign;
Attempting to set customerorder_id in a different file.
$cd = new CustomerDesign();
$cd->setcustomerID($this->data->customerId);
$cd->setcustomerorderID($this->data->orderId);
$cd->setQuantity($cartItem->getQuantity());
$cd->setProductVariant($cartItem->getProductVariant());
$cd->setDesignData($cartItem->getDesignData());
$cd->setRequestProof($cartItem->getRequestProof());
$cd->setComments($cartItem->getComments());
$cd->setSpecialComments($cartItem->getSpecialComments());
$cd->setgiftSetID($cartItem->getgiftSetID());
$cd->setgiftSetParent($cartItem->getgiftSetParent());
$cd->setisBlank($cartItem->getisBlank());
$cd->setbasedOn($cartItem->getbasedOn());
$cd->setApprovalData($cartItem->getApprovalData());
$cd->setdesignName('');
$this->em->persist($cd);
$this->em->flush();
This $cd->setcustomerorderID($this->data->orderId); is not working at all.
setcustomerorderID Looks like:
/**
* Set customerorder_id
*
* #param integer $customerorder_id
*/
public function setcustomerorderID($customerorder_id)
{
$this->customerorder_id = $customerorder_id;
}
Thanks.

Answer 1

Change your code here:
/**
* #var order
*
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="FYP\CartBundle\Entity\Orders", inversedBy="CustomerDesign")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="customerorder_id", referencedColumnName="orderID")
*/
private $order;
As far as I understand, according your relationships, you might have one order to many customer designs.
Instead of ID, you need to assign Entity.
Details can be found in Doctrine documentation.
<?php
$order = new Order();
$design = new CustomerDesign();
$design->setOrder($order);
...
public function setOrder($order)
{
$this->order = $order;
}
...
$this->em->persist($order);
$this->em->persist($design);
$this->em->flush();
You created relationships, and it means customerorder_id is under ORM control.