Symfony3 FOSUserBundle populate table

Question

I'm messing about with Symfony3 FOSUserBundle by following this Symfony docs

I managed to successfully install it and set it up as show in the docs. Checked by database and FSOUserBundle has created this table for me:

    +-----------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
    | Field                 | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
    +-----------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
    | id                    | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
    | username              | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | username_canonical    | varchar(255) | NO   | UNI | NULL    |                |
    | email                 | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | email_canonical       | varchar(255) | NO   | UNI | NULL    |                |
    | enabled               | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | salt                  | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | password              | varchar(255) | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | last_login            | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
    | locked                | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | expired               | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | expires_at            | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
    | confirmation_token    | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
    | password_requested_at | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
    | roles                 | longtext     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | credentials_expired   | tinyint(1)   | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
    | credentials_expire_at | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
    +-----------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

Understand that these fields come from BasuUser which I extend in User entity.

Next step I am using Fixtures to load data into this table but what I am wondering is this wether I need to set every single field in this table i see by default the are NULL so when and how I should populate these fields?

Thx

Answer 1

If you look at User class from FOSUser, you see that there are setters, and constructor, that do some needed work. Look at constructor of User class:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->salt = base_convert(sha1(uniqid(mt_rand(), true)), 16, 36);
    $this->enabled = false;
    $this->locked = false;
    $this->expired = false;
    $this->roles = array();
    $this->credentialsExpired = false;
}

If you fill username by, $user->setUsername('username') , field username_canonical will be populated too. Analogically with email and email_canonical . You should set Enabled as true if you not require confirmation by e-mail. Salt is populated by constructor. Next you set plainPassword then password is automatically encoded and populated. Last login can be whichever. It is managed automatically when user login. Expired is connected only with accounts that have restricted time of being available. Confirmation_token is connected with e-mail confirmation of account. Password_requested_at allow to avoid sending hundreds e-mails with password reset. Managing roles use add rather than set because of it is array rather not field. Do not worry about empty roles in database for ROLE_USER , it is to save table volume. credentials_expired is default false, but you can find creative application of this column.

Finally look at my code of fixtures that create user super admin and 10 users.

<?php
namespace Application\Sonata\UserBundle\DataFixtures\ORM;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\OrderedFixtureInterface;
use Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\FixtureInterface;
use AppBundle\Entity\User;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerAwareInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
class LoadUserData extends AbstractFixture implements OrderedFixtureInterface, ContainerAwareInterface
{
    /**
     * @var ContainerInterface
     */
    private $container;

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function setContainer(ContainerInterface $container = null)
    {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function load(ObjectManager $manager)
    {
        /** @var $manager \FOS\UserBundle\Doctrine\UserManager */
        $manager = $this->container->get('fos_user.user_manager');
        /** @var $user User */
        $user = $manager->createUser();
        $user->setUsername('admin');
        $user->setEmail('admin@example.com');
        $user->setRoles(array('ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN'));
        $user->setEnabled(true);
        $user->setPlainPassword('admin_pass');
        $manager->updateUser($user);
        unset($user);

        $faker = \Faker\Factory::create();
        for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
        {
            /** @var $user User */
            $user = $manager->createUser();
            $user->setUsername($faker->userName);
            $user->setEmail($faker->safeEmail);
            $user->setRoles(array('ROLE_USER'));
            $user->setEnabled(true);
            $user->setPlainPassword('pass');
            $manager->updateUser($user);
            $this->addReference('user.demo_'.$i, $user);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return integer
     */
    function getOrder()
    {
        return 10;
    }
}

Answer 2

As long a you have this set in your "app/config/security.yml" file:

- { path: ^/register, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }

Then you should be able to go to the URL /register , then you are prompted to register, and then you can query the fos_user table and you will see it get populated.

If you need to use AD Authentication, you can go through my blog on that .