How to set up entity (doctrine) for database view in Symfony 2

The accepted answer is correct, but I'd like to offer some additional suggestions that you might want to consider:

Mark your entity as read-only.

Make the constructor private so that only Doctrine can create instances.

/** * @ORM\Entity(readOnly=true) * @ORM\Table(name="your_view_table") */class YourEntity {    private function __construct() {}}

There is nothing special in querying a view — it's just a virtual table. Set the table of your entity this way and enjoy:

/** * @ORM\Entity * @ORM\Table(name="your_view_table") */class YourEntity {    // ...}

Both the previous answers are correct, but if you use the doctrine migration tool and do a schema:update it will fail...

So, in addition to marking the entity as read only and making the constructor private (explained in Ian Phillips answer):

/** * @ORM\Entity(readOnly=true) * @ORM\Table(name="your_view_table") */class YourEntity {    private function __construct() {}}

You would need to set the schema tool to ignore the entity when doing a schema:update...

In order to do that you just need to create this command in your bundle, and set yout entity in the ignoredEntity list:

src/Acme/CoreBundle/Command/DoctrineUpdateCommand.php:

<?phpnamespace Acme\CoreBundle\Command;use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\SchemaTool;class DoctrineUpdateCommand extends \Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\Command\Proxy\UpdateSchemaDoctrineCommand {  protected $ignoredEntities = array(      'Acme\CoreBundle\Entity\EntityToIgnore'  );  protected function executeSchemaCommand(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output, SchemaTool $schemaTool, array $metadatas) {    /** @var $metadata \Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata */    $newMetadatas = array();    foreach ($metadatas as $metadata) {      if (!in_array($metadata->getName(), $this->ignoredEntities)) {        array_push($newMetadatas, $metadata);      }    }    parent::executeSchemaCommand($input, $output, $schemaTool, $newMetadatas);  }}

(credit to Alexandru Trandafir Catalin: obtained from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25948910/1442457)

BTW, this is the only way I found to work with views from doctrine... I know it is a workaround... If there is a better way I am open or suggestions)