Doctrine: Entity listeners

Register entity listener

Map the entity listener class using annotations.

<?php

namespace MyProject\Entity;

use App\EventListener\UserListener;

#[Entity]
#[EntityListeners([UserListener::class])]
class User
{
    // ....
}

Define entity listener

<?php

namespace MyProject\EntityListener;

use Doctrine\ORM\Event\PreUpdateEventArgs;

class UserListener
{
    public function preUpdate(User $user, PreUpdateEventArgs $event)
    {
        // Do something on pre update.
    }
}

Configure entity listeners as services

Add the following config to your config/services.yaml file:

Other notes

• An entity listener is invoked just for an entity, as opposed to Doctrine events which are invoked for all entities.

Sources

• Entity listeners – Doctrine docs
• Full list of Doctrine entity listener events