How to display data with a ManyToMany relation and a joint table?

Question

i'm currently working on a symfony project and i have a problem.

This project is a website about a theater. There is therefore an "actors" entity and a "shows" entity. Each show can have multiple comedians, and comedians can have multiple shows. So I generated a ManyToMany relationship, and got a "spectacles.actors" link table. I don't understand how I can display in my twig, for each actor, the shows in which he is present.

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I tried

{{ actors.spectacles.title }} 

but its not working, i also tried a double for loop, but still not working. Can you help me please?

Thank you

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Ok it doesn't work but I found why. In fact with my ManyToMany relationship, I got two binding tables: actors_spectacles and spectacles_actors. When I perform my fixtures, the spectacles_actors table is filled but not actor_spectacles.

But how to fill it? Since there is a certain order in fixtures, I am having a lot of trouble understanding how fixtures work with ManyToMany relationship, can you help me?

Answer 1

You should loop over each actor and each linked shows to the actor.

Let's say you fetched all the actors in your controller:

{% for actor in actors %}
<ul>
    {% for spectacle in actor.spectacles %}
        <li>{{ spectacle.title }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endfor %}

ps: I advise you to use singular form for naming your entities;)