<?php

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Event\GenerateSchemaTableEventArgs;
use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\SchemaTool;
use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\ToolEvents;
use PHPSnippets\Db\Entity\Test;
use Doctrine\SqlFormatter\SqlFormatter;

$listener = new class() {
    public function postGenerateSchemaTable(GenerateSchemaTableEventArgs $event) : void
    {
        $table = $event->getClassTable();
        if ($table->getName() === 'test') {
            $table->addColumn('column_of_event', 'boolean');
        }
    }
};

$entityManager->getEventManager()
    ->addEventListener(ToolEvents::postGenerateSchemaTable, $listener);


$tool = new SchemaTool($entityManager);

$testEntityMetadata = $entityManager->getClassMetadata(Test::CLASS);
dump(
    'Column names of entity class Test:',
    $testEntityMetadata->columnNames
);

$queries = $tool->getCreateSchemaSql([$testEntityMetadata]);

echo (new SqlFormatter())->format($queries[0]);


^ "Column names of entity class Test:"

^ array:3 [
  "id" => "id"
  "name" => "name"
  "creationDate" => "creation_date"
]

CREATE TABLE test (
  id INT AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,
  name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
  creation_date DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
  column_of_event TINYINT(1) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY(id)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE `utf8mb4_unicode_ci` ENGINE = InnoDB

• Create your own Doctrine function
• One way to get a random Doctrine entity
• Doctrine DBAL events on database table creation

PHP 8.2, Laminas MVC 3.2, Symfony 5.2, Laravel 8.28, PHPUnit 9.5, Doctrine ORM 2.8