Important

You are browsing the documentation for version 4.2 of OroCommerce, OroCRM and OroPlatform, which is no longer maintained. Read version 5.1 (the latest LTS version) of the Oro documentation to get up-to-date information.

See our Release Process documentation for more information on the currently supported and upcoming releases.

Fixtures and Demo Data¶

Before your application contains an interface to create new tasks, you need to load them programmatically. In OroPlatform, this can be done by creating fixture classes that are placed in the Migrations/Data/ORM subdirectory of your bundle and that implement the FixtureInterface:

src/AppBundle/Migrations/Data/ORM/LoadTasks.php¶

 namespace AppBundle\Migrations\Data\ORM;

 use AppBundle\Entity\Priority;
 use AppBundle\Entity\Task;
 use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\FixtureInterface;
 use Doctrine\Persistence\ObjectManager;

 class LoadTasks implements FixtureInterface
 {
     public function load(ObjectManager $manager)
     {
         $majorPriority = new Priority();
         $majorPriority->setLabel('major');
         $manager->persist($majorPriority);

         $importantTask = new Task();
         $importantTask->setSubject('Important task');
         $importantTask->setDescription('This is an important task');
         $importantTask->setDueDate(new \DateTime('+1 week'));
         $importantTask->setPriority($majorPriority);
         $manager->persist($importantTask);

         $minorPriority = new Priority();
         $minorPriority->setLabel('minor');
         $manager->persist($minorPriority);

         $unimportantTask = new Task();
         $unimportantTask->setSubject('Unimportant task');
         $unimportantTask->setDescription('This is a not so important task');
         $unimportantTask->setDueDate(new \DateTime('+2 weeks'));
         $unimportantTask->setPriority($minorPriority);
         $manager->persist($unimportantTask);

         $manager->flush();
     }
 }

Use the oro:migration:data:load command to load all fixtures that have not been loaded yet:

php bin/console oro:migration:data:load

The fixtures type (“main”, or “demo”) can be specified with the --fixtures-type=<type> option. For example, you can create data fixtures that should only be loaded when you want to to present your application with some demo data. To do so place your data fixture classes in the Migrations/Data/Demo/ORM subdirectory of your bundle and use the --fixtures-type option of the oro:migration:data:load command to indicate that the demo data should be loaded:

php bin/console oro:migration:data:load --fixtures-type=demo

The --dry-run option can be used to print the list of fixtures without applying them:

php bin/console oro:migration:data:load --dry-run

The --bundles option can be used to load the fixtures only from the specified bundles:

php bin/console oro:migration:data:load --bundles=<BundleOne> --bundles=<BundleTwo> --bundles=<BundleThree>

The --exclude option will skip loading fixtures from the specified bundles:

php bin/console oro:migration:data:load --exclude=<BundleOne> --exclude=<BundleTwo> --exclude=<BundleThree>

Business Tip

If you’ve ever been wondering about the differences between B2C and B2B e-commerce, our guide will answer all of your possible questions.