Symfony fixtures getReference Missing reference error

fizziks :

I'm new to symfony, I have Two entities with a ManyToMany relationship. Action.php and Etablissement.php I'm trying to populate my database from two .csv files (one for each object) with doctrine fixtures.

I begin with EtablissementFixtures.php in which i reference each Etablissement $this->addReference($line[0], $etablissement); so that i can access it in my other Fixture.

The problem is that in my second fixture ActionFixture.php the .csv contains some id's that don't exist in the Etablissement's .csv. When i try $this->getReference($line[0]) i get a Reference to "0010063N" does not exist error, i've tried to surround the getReference line with a try/catch block but it doesn't work, i want to ignore that error and continue the execution of the code.

I hope that i made it clear, thank you.

ejuhjav :

Welcome to the SO forums.

If I understood your question correctly, you are looking for hasReference function that you can use for checking whether a reference with specific name exists:

$this->hasReference($line[0]);