BravesheepDatabaseUrlBundle

A Symfony2 bundle for parsing the contents of a url that specifies which database to use., _(*1)

Installation and configuration

Using Composer add the bundle to your dependencies using the require command: composer require bravesheep/database-url-bundle:dev-master., _(*2)

Add the bundle to your AppKernel

Add the bundle in your app/AppKernel.php. Note: in order for the parameters defined by this bundle to be picked up by Doctrine, you need to include this bundle before including the Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\DoctrineBundle bundle., _(*3)

public function registerBundles()
{
    return array(
        // ...
        new Bravesheep\DatabaseUrlBundle\BravesheepDatabaseUrlBundle(),
        // ...
    );
}

Configure which urls should be rewritten to parameters

For this bundle to work you need to specify which urls need to be rewritten to basic parameters. This bundle can handle any number of urls by configuring the correct properties under bravesheep_database_url.urls. Take a look at this example configuration:, _(*4)

bravesheep_database_url:
    urls:
        default:
            url: %database_url%
            prefix: database_

In this case we take the value of the database_url parameter and create parameters from it prefixed with database_., _(*5)

Usage

Take a look at this parameters.yml.dist which is distributed by the Symfony2 Standard Edition:, _(*6)

parameters:
    database_driver: pdo_mysql
    database_host: 127.0.0.1
    database_port: ~
    database_name: symfony
    database_user: root
    database_password: ~

    mailer_transport: smtp
    mailer_host: 127.0.0.1
    mailer_user: ~
    mailer_password: ~

    locale: en
    secret: ThisTokenIsNotSoSecretChangeIt

    debug_toolbar: true
    debug_redirects: false
    use_assetic_controller: true

As you can see there is a grand total of 6 parameters required for just specifying the database connection. If we could instead use a URL for specifying the database this might be reduced to just this:, _(*7)

parameters:
    database_url: mysql://root@127.0.0.1/symfony

    mailer_transport: smtp
    mailer_host: 127.0.0.1
    mailer_user: ~
    mailer_password: ~

    locale: en
    secret: ThisTokenIsNotSoSecretChangeIt

    debug_toolbar: true
    debug_redirects: false
    use_assetic_controller: true

This is exactly what the BravesheepDatabaseUrlBundle is supposed to do. The example configuration in the previous section reads this database_url parameter and creates the individual database_driver, database_host, database_port, database_name, database_user and database_password., _(*8)

In general this bundle takes any database url and creates the following parameters, prefixed with the prefix you specify: driver, host, port, name, user, password, path and memory. The path and memory variables are used to indicate the SQLite path and a boolean indicating whether to use an in-memory SQLite database respectively., _(*9)

Accepted urls

URLs are generally formatted in scheme://user:password@host:port/database format. The following schemes are understood:, _(*10)

postgres, postgresql, pgsql and pdo_pgsql for the pdo_pgsql (PostgreSQL) driver
mysql and pdo_mysql for the pdo_mysql (MySQL) driver
sqlite and pdo_sqlite for the pdo_sqlite (SQLite) driver
mssql and pdo_mssql for the pdo_mssql (MSSQL) driver

Username and password can be omitted if they are not required, as well as the port in case it is the default. For SQLite the format to use is:, _(*11)

sqlite:///path/to/sqlite/db for an absolute path to a SQLite database.
sqlite:///%kernel.root_dir%/to/db.sql?relative for a relative path using the kernel.root_dir as the base
sqlite://:memory: for an in-memory database