As a Doctrine maintainer, one of the most exciting parts is working on software that powers thousands of businesses, and helps developers write better software for themselves and their employers. It is a huge challenge to get right, and a large source of satisfaction when it goes to plan. The…

Let’s start out with a clear statement: our entire IT infrastructure is built on Open Source. Many of the basic tools in IT, from small libraries to entire operating systems, are developed and maintained by people with a passion for software development, often in their free time. It started out…

A few weeks back, I was approached by Asmir about some changes he wanted to make to the Doctrine Migrations library. The changes sounded simple enough: to add support for multiple migration namespaces. This has been on our wishlist for a while, but we’ve never managed to get to it…

With the release of Doctrine MongoDB ODM 2.0-RC1, it is time to start thinking about migrating to this new version. 2.0 brings a load of changes and most importantly a switch away from the legacy MongoDB driver, which did not support PHP 7 natively. MongoDB ODM now utilises the new…

With the release of Doctrine MongoDB ODM 1.2, we’ve introduced several new features. I want to highlight some of them in this blog post and give an outlook on future development of MongoDB ODM. Aggregation builder With aggregation builder, we’re giving you a tool to create aggregation pipeline queries similar to how…