Understanding the @ManyToOne and @OneToMany annotations with the comment system

Let's start with the comments. Visitors to our blog should be able to react to our posts. We have to create a new Comment Doctrine entity type storing the reader's comments. Comment entities will be linked to one Post entity. One post can have many comments, and one comment is associated with a sole post.

The following E-R diagram represents the MySQL schema that will be generated using mapping information:

Understanding the @ManyToOne and @OneToMany annotations with the comment system

Creating the Comment entity class (owning side)

The Comment entity has the following four properties:

  • id: This is a unique identifier of the comment
  • body: This represents ...

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