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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence is set to host the first annual Rhode Island Seafood Festival this weekend.
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Nearly 50 percent of the 2011 high school graduates from Delta County required some type of remedial instruction when they enrolled in college. That data was included in the Colorado Department of Higher Education's 2012 Remedial Education Report, which was released this week.
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"Remediation is rightly a serious concern for educators, policymakers, parents and students," said Lt. Governor Joe Garcia, who is also the executive director of the Department of Higher Education.
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This year, 87 Nebraska schools joined the list of schools deemed in need of improvement — a list that has now grown to 286, about two-thirds of the state's public schools. Among the schools added this year were Millard North and Millard West High Schools, two high fliers in academics.
Educators say it's the result of unreasonable academic targets built into the law, which max out this year.
Millard Superintendent Keith Lutz called the spiraling list of schools "crazy," but he said educators warned this would happen as the targets rose.
"This isn't anything new that we didn't tell them in 2001," Lutz said.
Iowa education officials reported similar results earlier this week, with nearly two-thirds of its public schools on the in-need-of-improvement list.
At a press conference Friday, Scott Swisher, Nebraska's deputy education commissioner, expressed frustration that Congress still hasn't rewritten No Child Left Behind. He said educators are wasting time on compliance and should not be forced into seeking waivers that come with a set of different but just as onerous rules.
"Do your job, Congress, and get this thing fixed," he said.
As more of the nation's schools run afoul of the law, U.S. Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., believes President Barack Obama will, on his own, waive the targets, according to Terry spokesman Larry Farnsworth.
The Obama administration has already granted waivers to 42 states in exchange for adopting other accountability measures favored by the president. Requests are pending for four other states, Puerto Rico and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Nebraska has not sought a waiver.
U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., in a statement Friday, said the federal government's role in education "should be limited and well-defined."
"As a strong advocate for local control of schools, I opposed No Child Left Behind because it gives the federal government a significant degree of control over administering education," he said. "Should education legislation come before the full Senate, I will work to ensure that individual states and districts have the flexibility to respond to the needs of their students."
The No Child Left Behind law passed by Congress in 2001 was a bipartisan effort that arose from concern in the late 1990s that schools were graduating kids who weren't prepared for success in careers and college.
Now the criticism is bipartisan, though some critics still give the law credit for making sure that schools paid attention to achievement of racial groups and special education students.
No one's holding their breath that Congress will reach agreement on a bill to reauthorize the law. Front-running bills are far apart in their approaches.
Last June, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, introduced the Strengthening America's Schools Act. It is pitched as offering states flexibility, but critics say it includes new requirements for state accountability systems and ties funding eligibility to states' adoption of certain prescriptive teacher evaluation systems.
The House's attempt at reauthorization is the Student Success Act, passed in July.
It is pitched as returning education policy to the states, replacing the targets known as "adequate yearly progress" with state-determined accountability systems.
It would also eliminate federally mandated actions and interventions currently required of poor performing schools.
Harkin has said there are significant differences between the two pieces of legislation that have to be reconciled.
Diane Stuehmer, in charge of federal programs for the Nebraska Department of Education, said state officials inquired a year ago about freezing the targets and were told the only way was to apply for a waiver.
Beginning with the current school year and until reauthorization takes place or Nebraska gets a waiver, the target for reading and math performance is having 100 percent of students proficient.
Even before that target takes effect, schools have increasingly fallen short of the rising state goals. They must meet them not only for students overall, but also for various subgroups — such as racial groups, low-�income students and those in special education.
Millard West, for example, fell short in 2011-12 when less than 79 percent of low-income and special education students met the state reading standards. In 2012-13, the reading target went up to 89 percent, and the school missed it not only for special education students but also for the overall student body — although Millard West's low-income youths did meet the higher target.
In math, where the 2011-12 goal was to have 61 percent of students proficient, Millard West's low-income and special education students didn't meet that standard. A year later, only the special education students fell short of the new 80 percent proficiency target — but that was enough to put the school in the "not met" category in math for a second year.
Schools and districts have to miss the targets for two consecutive years in the same grade span and subject area to be listed as in need of improvement. The result is that a lot of schools will likely fail to make target for the first time in 2013-14. If they fail again in 2014-15, the consequences for Title I schools — high-poverty schools that receive federal money to help — would kick in the following year.
There's a downside to being listed as "needs improvement," beyond the public shaming.
Sanctions start out small but ultimately call for corrective actions such as replacing half the teachers or the principal or even closing the school.
Stuehmer said the biggest worry for districts is that listed schools are required to set aside 20 percent of their Title I allocation for programs to help struggling kids.
Targets for the number of students proficient in math and reading have risen steadily to the new 100 percent level. Having all students proficient "makes as much sense as saying every United States senator will run the 50-yard dash in 5 seconds," said ReNae Kehrberg, assistant superintendent of the Omaha Public Schools.
"We don't all hit the same performance standards at the same time," Kehrberg said.
Nebraska officials have made it clear that waivers come with their own accountability.
In exchange for the waivers, the Obama administration has required states to adopt "rigorous and comprehensive plans" to improve outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity and improve the quality of instruction.
States could apply to waive the targets if they set new "ambitious but achievable" targets.
Stuehmer said that in other states those have been also set at 100 percent proficiency.
States must adopt college- and career-ready standards, either Common Core or standards certified by a network of institutions of higher education.
States still have to have assessments to measure student growth in grades three to eight and in high school, have an accountability system that provides a way to intervene in struggling schools, and must evaluate teachers and principals on a regular basis, taking into account student academic growth as a "significant factor."
Lutz said educators warned politicians that with the rising targets, eventually "we'd all be on the list."
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Isn't that the cover of one of the newer FTD's from last year?Originally Posted by howardrobardhughes
The picture is taken in Lake Tahoe april - may 1976.
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Wow, so many people have a problem with Thomas Wayne Jr when it was obviously left open to interpertation. Can't understand that.
It being a dumb piece of storytelling has nothing to do with the ambiguity, which it was fairly obvious they were going to go with anyway. It has to do with literally nothing actually in the story foreshadowing the "reveal" and with it basically adding nothing to the story besides a guy shouting "I'm also your brother too, isn't that eeeeevil!?" It was just out of nowhere and lost any possible weight because of that. I mean, why should we care that Lincoln March might be Thomas Wayne Junior? And what in the story AT ALL led up to that moment? Nothing.
However, if we're talking about the storyline, that can't be a jump-the-shark moment. That story jumped the shark when the Talon army was awoken and dispatched to openly attack Gotham. I mean, the secret ninja assassins who went unconfirmed for over a hundred years and worked for a secret organization that controls Gotham from the shadows just decided that they should ditch the secret part entirely? And this in a world that now has superheroes. Not to mention that they sent dozens of Talons to Wayne Manor for some reason, when they hadn't bothered to find out Batman's identity and did not in fact suspect it. Sure, he'd escaped them before, but if you're sending the Talons, might as well use just a few and hit more of those other targets. On multiple levels this whole Night of the Owls makes no sense.
Looking for artists, know I won't find any. That blows.
We were told that Martha had lost a baby because of the Court. So you allways knew there was a brother, but he was supposed to be dead.
Also, most of the things on the story came from the fact that he hated Bruce for thinking he was his brother. So yeah, there was a reason. Or would you prefer "I was born evil, so mwahahaha to you, Batman".
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The time Dr. Hurt said he was Batman's father. That was dumbest thing I've ever read in comics at that point and it's amazing that I ever took that character seriously again. It was so far out of left field and even after rereading all of the events that led into Batman RIP, I still don't see how I was ever to believe him. Got great flashbacks to Empire Strikes Back though.
I'm also going to mention Stephine Brown's death, Cassandra Cain turning evil, and Mary Marvel going evil as well in Countdown. I don't need to explain them. You already known why they are bad.
Oh I know that. It's just I couldn't believe it on any level and found it really bad. Really took me out of the comic and hurt the ending (though the ending really stunk anyways, so the blow wasn't that big).
Now TJ Wayne thing, which isn't true regardless, I didn't believe either. However, I found it just so amusing and silly that it doesn't bother me that much.
A big part of Dr Hurt was that he tried to destroy the image of Bruce's parents. To add credibility to that he said he was his father, to try to make Bruce at least doubt that the things being told about his mother were true. Bruce never bought it and it was never showed to the reader as something plausible, so it was clearly allways Hurt lying to further screw with Bruce. Again, can't see how it is silly or "jumping the shark". It was a person lying. Probably the same with Owlman.
How did these two never meet?
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Less than 2 pages for this to turn into a Snyderbash. Impressive.
Superboy Prime punching the walls of reality and bringing Jason Todd back to life.
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There's a distinction to be made between bashing a creator versus bashing a plot point. Especially in a thread made for the sole purpose of tearing down stories. A Snyder book was bound to come up, just as surely as a Morrison book will. Oh wait, too late.
Seriously, if people would stop acting so outraged that someone could possibly find flaws in Snyder's work, the discussion probably would have moved on by now.
That's got my vote. One of those moments were I actually felt my intelligence was insulted. Pretty much put me off comics for awhile too, as the part of the country I was living in made them hard to get anyway.Superboy Prime punching the walls of reality and bringing Jason Todd back to life.
Just making a joke regarding Snyder. I think the story had some good and not so good moments.
Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Constantine, Earth-2, Suicide Squad, Phantom Stranger, Forever Evil, Rogues Rebellion, Arkham War, ARGUS, Iron Man & Unity. Trades: Saga, East of West & Lazarus.
-Superboy Prime punching reality as the reason Jason Todd returned to life.
-Turning Cassandra Cain evil
-Dr. Hurt claiming to be Bruce's father
-Morrison jumped the shark by letting reader's know that Bruce was merely shot through time when all the characters thought he was dead (minus Tim). Made all the character reactions to his death lose all emotional impact for me since I knew it was not true.
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"Words cannot adequately describe the respect I have for our emergency services personnel, who put their lives at risk in an effort to save the lives and property of others," Mayor Bettina Bieri said. "They are the unsung heroes that respond on a daily basis, generally without proper recognition or thanks."
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According to Svrchek, the cause of the gas main rupture and the nearby structural fire on Lakeside Road is still unknown. However, he is certain that all involved "gave 110 percent" and "definitely deserve the accolades."
During the height of the storm, members of Greenwood Forest Volunteer Fire Company No. 3, West Milford Volunteer Fire Company No. 6, and Ringwood Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 (Tanker 262) bravely cordoned off the roadside fire, he said.
Due to the prevalence of fallen trees and power lines, Public Service Electric & Gas Co. has to be diverted through New York State and down Lakeside Avenue to physically shut off the feed, which significantly extended their task. Svrchek said assistance from police from Ramapo, Tuxedo, N.Y., and Greenwood Lake, N.Y., which also sent fire crews to help with the blaze, was vital to ensuring the success of the mission.
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Google has used data center containers to isolate hot and cold air and gain greater control over airflow to its servers. The new design takes this concept to a more granular level of management. The air wands can apply cool air directly to the "hot spots" inside a server tray, meaning less air is wasted or misdirected in the server room or container. This could allow Google to use a smaller chiller plant in its data centers, saving energy in the process.Chillers, which are used to refrigerate water for use in data center cooling systems, require a large amount of electricity to operate. With the growing focus on power costs, many data centers are trying to reduce their reliance on chillers.
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Google is operating a chiller-less data center in Belgium, where the climate allows nearly year-round use of free cooling. But this strategy will only work in cooler regions, and Google's global ambitions may eventually require data centers in hotter climates unsuitable for free cooling.Google can gain additional control over its cooling system through automated monitoring and management, as the system is designed to respond to changes within the rack as temperatures fluctuate. "The temperature sensor output can be fed to a computer program that triggers air distribution in the event of the board temperature crossing a threshold," the patent reads. "Each temperature sensor may be connected to a PID control loop with a damper, so the corresponding damper is opened … with an increase in temperature sensed for a particular area."
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Google's data center designs were kept secret for many years, consistent with the company's belief that its data center innovations gave it a competitive advantage. In April Google discussed its data center operations for the first time, joining a growing industry conversation about best practices for energy efficiency.The company revealed its data center containers, custom server design and on-board UPS, among other innovations. But some industry observers concluded that there was more in the pipeline that Google wasn't discussing.
"Both the board and the data center designs shown in detail where not Google's very newest but all were excellent and well worth seeing," James Hamilton noted at the time. "I like the approach of showing the previous generation technology to the industry while pushing ahead with newer work. This technique allows a company to reap the potential competitive advantages of its R&D investment while at the same time being more open with the previous generation."
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Posted November 30th, 2009EXCELLENT post, thanks very much. Indeed, it will be nice once this has matured sufficiently so that other organizations can also benefit by investing in these sort of targeted cooling improvements.
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Posted November 30th, 2009Thanks for the update. This approach is not new, and even design firms such as RTKL have explored and patented alternate air delivery methods. In the past, pressure losses and leakage at connections have been problematic; is there an approach that addresses those issues? Also, will the cost increase for having the wands be marginal by comparison?
Rich Miller
Posted November 30th, 2009Here's a link to the RTKL patent that John Peterson references, which describes "an elongated duct defining a passageway for air distribution … positioned within the internal chamber (of the rack) and has a plurality of adjustable air discharge ports that are in fluid communication with the passageway."
Posted December 1st, 2009Got to this article from another site link. Cooling the hot spot can reduce the cooling air flow, for that the load is identical, the exhaust air temperature will be higher than before. Suppose vent air temperature is constant, the exhaust air temperature should be higher than the air outside room, and exhaust to outside, this is a good point; or the chiller will have same heat load, there is only a benefit from fan power reduction. Water cooling may be more energy saving, with lower pump power, I guess.
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Posted April 20th, 2010Thank you very much. Google data centers has excellent cooling systems. Water cooling method is really intellegent idea.


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Genes contributing to risk for common forms of stroke Trends in Molecular Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 5, 1 May 2005, Pages 217-224 Jeffrey R. Gulcher, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Anna Helgadottir and Kari Stefansson Abstract The quest for disease genes that confer risk for stroke is now being undertaken using three complementary approaches. Positional cloning using rare Mendelian phenocopies of stroke has found genes that contribute to rare forms of stroke but, so far, not to the common forms of stroke. Candidate-gene case-control association studies using the common forms of stroke have found suggestive associations of modest effect. However, positional cloning using hundreds of Icelandic families affected by the common forms of stroke has recently found two genes conferring substantial risk for ischemic stroke that have apparently been confirmed in the USA and other European populations. Both genes encode enzymes, phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) and arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein (FLAP), which suggest novel treatment strategies for stroke prevention. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (152 kb) |
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To much Goose poop on half the course, but a nice landscape to play. Level & mostly open shots.
+0 votes Dave Hab › January 19, 2013
Nice little course with mostly short open holes & one long dog leg shot. Good quality signage, baskets, & tee pads. The layout flowed well, just a bit confusing going from #3 to #4 & #5. Biggest challenge @ this course is the wind. This is a good course for beginning players & a good warm up for Youngs Run DGC across the street. During college hours there may be student traffic to deal with here.
+0 votes nathaniel b › June 27, 2012
this course is wide open and right across the street from youngs run a fun 9 hole to play before or after
+0 votes John Sales › June 19, 2012
I rate this course 2.5 out of 5 stars.
- Surprising amount of angles are used. Excellent use of trees, bushes and fences as obstacles.
- There is a nice variety of distances being used. 6 of the 9 holes are over 300' and there are two holes over 500'. This course allows you to test your max distance.
- The course has a nice flow overall with a short walk from the parking lot to the Practice Basket & Hole #1. Hole #9 finished right at the parking lot. There is a slight hiccou ...
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+2 votes Matt Smith › April 30, 2012
Wide open and nothing special. Right across from Clarence Darrow.
+1 votes Cory King › July 1, 2011
D+ seems unfair as I really enjoyed a quick 9 here right after playing Young's Run across the street. However it is a nine hole course in primarily open field, but the course is fun and a few holes are challenging.
+2 votes Tim Krosse › February 22, 2011
Constant winds and technical pin positions make this wide open course challenging. From the road, this 9-hole course appears wide open, but once you throw to most of the greens, the design team did a nice job "tucking" the pins into not-so easy positions on all but one of the holes. Nice! Just across the street is Warren Ohio's Young's Run Disc Golf Course, 18 holes of always challenging wooded holes.


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4. Basic Mapping¶
This chapter explains the basic mapping of objects and properties. Mapping of associations will be covered in the next chapter "Association Mapping".
4.1. Mapping Drivers¶
Doctrine provides several different ways for specifying object-relational mapping metadata:
- Docblock Annotations
This manual usually mentions docblock annotations in all the examples that are spread throughout all chapters, however for many examples alternative YAML and XML examples are given aswell. There are dedicated reference chapters for XML and YAML mapping, respectively that explain them in more detail. There is also an Annotation reference chapter.
If you're wondering which mapping driver gives the best performance, the answer is: They all give exactly the same performance. Once the metadata of a class has been read from the source (annotations, xml or yaml) it is stored in an instance of the Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata class and these instances are stored in the metadata cache. Therefore at the end of the day all drivers perform equally well. If you're not using a metadata cache (not recommended!) then the XML driver might have a slight edge in performance due to the powerful native XML support in PHP.
4.2. Introduction to Docblock Annotations¶
You've probably used docblock annotations in some form already, most likely to provide documentation metadata for a tool like PHPDocumentor (@author, @link, ...). Docblock annotations are a tool to embed metadata inside the documentation section which can then be processed by some tool. Doctrine 2 generalizes the concept of docblock annotations so that they can be used for any kind of metadata and so that it is easy to define new docblock annotations. In order to allow more involved annotation values and to reduce the chances of clashes with other docblock annotations, the Doctrine 2 docblock annotations feature an alternative syntax that is heavily inspired by the Annotation syntax introduced in Java 5.
The implementation of these enhanced docblock annotations is located in the Doctrine\Common\Annotations namespace and therefore part of the Common package. Doctrine 2 docblock annotations support namespaces and nested annotations among other things. The Doctrine 2 ORM defines its own set of docblock annotations for supplying object-relational mapping metadata.
If you're not comfortable with the concept of docblock annotations, don't worry, as mentioned earlier Doctrine 2 provides XML and YAML alternatives and you could easily implement your own favourite mechanism for defining ORM metadata.
4.3. Persistent classes¶
In order to mark a class for object-relational persistence it needs to be designated as an entity. This can be done through the @Entity marker annotation.
<?php /** @Entity */ class MyPersistentClass { //... }
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="MyPersistentClass"> <!-- ... --> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity # ...
By default, the entity will be persisted to a table with the same name as the class name. In order to change that, you can use the @Table annotation as follows:
<?php /** * @Entity * @Table(name="my_persistent_class") */ class MyPersistentClass { //... }
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="MyPersistentClass" table="my_persistent_class"> <!-- ... --> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity table: my_persistent_class # ...
Now instances of MyPersistentClass will be persisted into a table named my_persistent_class.
4.4. Doctrine Mapping Types¶
A Doctrine Mapping Type defines the mapping between a PHP type and an SQL type. All Doctrine Mapping Types that ship with Doctrine are fully portable between different RDBMS. You can even write your own custom mapping types that might or might not be portable, which is explained later in this chapter.
For example, the Doctrine Mapping Type string defines the mapping from a PHP string to an SQL VARCHAR (or VARCHAR2 etc. depending on the RDBMS brand). Here is a quick overview of the built-in mapping types:
- string: Type that maps an SQL VARCHAR to a PHP string.
- integer: Type that maps an SQL INT to a PHP integer.
- smallint: Type that maps a database SMALLINT to a PHP integer.
- bigint: Type that maps a database BIGINT to a PHP string.
- boolean: Type that maps an SQL boolean to a PHP boolean.
- decimal: Type that maps an SQL DECIMAL to a PHP double.
- date: Type that maps an SQL DATETIME to a PHP DateTime object.
- time: Type that maps an SQL TIME to a PHP DateTime object.
- datetime: Type that maps an SQL DATETIME/TIMESTAMP to a PHP DateTime object.
- text: Type that maps an SQL CLOB to a PHP string.
- object: Type that maps a SQL CLOB to a PHP object using serialize() and unserialize()
- array: Type that maps a SQL CLOB to a PHP object using serialize() and unserialize()
- float: Type that maps a SQL Float (Double Precision) to a PHP double. IMPORTANT: Works only with locale settings that use decimal points as separator.
Doctrine Mapping Types are NOT SQL types and NOT PHP types! They are mapping types between 2 types. Additionally Mapping types are case-sensitive. For example, using a DateTime column will NOT match the datetime type that ships with Doctrine 2.
All Date types assume that you are exclusively using the default timezone set by date_default_timezone_set() or by the php.ini configuration date.timezone. Working with different timezones will cause troubles and unexpected behavior.
If you need specific timezone handling you have to handle this in your domain, converting all the values back and forth from UTC. There is also a cookbook entry <../cookbook/working-with-datetime> on working with datetimes that gives hints for implementing multi timezone applications.
4.5. Property Mapping¶
After a class has been marked as an entity it can specify mappings for its instance fields. Here we will only look at simple fields that hold scalar values like strings, numbers, etc. Associations to other objects are covered in the chapter "Association Mapping".
To mark a property for relational persistence the @Column docblock annotation is used. This annotation usually requires at least 1 attribute to be set, the type. The type attribute specifies the Doctrine Mapping Type to use for the field. If the type is not specified, 'string' is used as the default mapping type since it is the most flexible.
<?php /** @Entity */ class MyPersistentClass { /** @Column(type="integer") */ private $id; /** @Column(length=50) */ private $name; // type defaults to string //... }
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="MyPersistentClass"> <field name="id" type="integer" /> <field name="name" length="50" /> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity fields: id: type: integer name: length: 50
In that example we mapped the field id to the column id using the mapping type integer and the field name is mapped to the column name with the default mapping type string. As you can see, by default the column names are assumed to be the same as the field names. To specify a different name for the column, you can use the name attribute of the Column annotation as follows:
<?php /** @Column(name="db_name") */ private $name;
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="MyPersistentClass"> <field name="name" column="db_name" /> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity fields: name: length: 50 column: db_name
The Column annotation has some more attributes. Here is a complete list:
- type: (optional, defaults to 'string') The mapping type to use for the column.
- name: (optional, defaults to field name) The name of the column in the database.
- length: (optional, default 255) The length of the column in the database. (Applies only if a string-valued column is used).
- unique: (optional, default FALSE) Whether the column is a unique key.
- nullable: (optional, default FALSE) Whether the database column is nullable.
- precision: (optional, default 0) The precision for a decimal (exact numeric) column. (Applies only if a decimal column is used.)
- scale: (optional, default 0) The scale for a decimal (exact numeric) column. (Applies only if a decimal column is used.)
4.6. Custom Mapping Types¶
Doctrine allows you to create new mapping types. This can come in handy when you're missing a specific mapping type or when you want to replace the existing implementation of a mapping type.
In order to create a new mapping type you need to subclass Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type and implement/override the methods as you wish. Here is an example skeleton of such a custom type class:
namespace My\Project\Types;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\AbstractPlatform;
* My custom datatype.
class MyType extends Type
const MYTYPE = 'mytype'; // modify to match your type name
public function getSqlDeclaration(array $fieldDeclaration, AbstractPlatform $platform)
// return the SQL used to create your column type. To create a portable column type, use the $platform.
public function convertToPHPValue($value, AbstractPlatform $platform)
// This is executed when the value is read from the database. Make your conversions here, optionally using the $platform.
public function convertToDatabaseValue($value, AbstractPlatform $platform)
// This is executed when the value is written to the database. Make your conversions here, optionally using the $platform.
public function getName()
return self::MYTYPE; // modify to match your constant name
Restrictions to keep in mind:
- If the value of the field is NULL the method convertToDatabaseValue() is not called.
- The UnitOfWork never passes values to the database convert method that did not change in the request.
When you have implemented the type you still need to let Doctrine know about it. This can be achieved through the Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type#addType($name, $className) method. See the following example:
// in bootstrapping code
// ...
use Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type;
// ...
// Register my type
Type::addType('mytype', 'My\Project\Types\MyType');
As can be seen above, when registering the custom types in the configuration you specify a unique name for the mapping type and map that to the corresponding fully qualified class name. Now you can use your new type in your mapping like this:
class MyPersistentClass
/** @Column(type="mytype") */
private $field;
To have Schema-Tool convert the underlying database type of your new "mytype" directly into an instance of MyType you have to additionally register this mapping with your database platform:
$conn = $em->getConnection();
$conn->getDatabasePlatform()->registerDoctrineTypeMapping('db_mytype', 'mytype');
Now using Schema-Tool, whenever it detects a column having the db_mytype it will convert it into a mytype Doctrine Type instance for Schema representation. Keep in mind that you can easily produce clashes this way, each database type can only map to exactly one Doctrine mapping type.
4.7. Custom ColumnDefinition¶
You can define a custom definition for each column using the "columnDefinition" attribute of @Column. You have to define all the definitions that follow the name of a column here.
Using columnDefinition will break change-detection in SchemaTool.
4.8. Identifiers / Primary Keys¶
Every entity class needs an identifier/primary key. You designate the field that serves as the identifier with the @Id marker annotation. Here is an example:
<?php class MyPersistentClass { /** @Id @Column(type="integer") */ private $id; //... }
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="MyPersistentClass"> <id name="id" type="integer" /> <field name="name" length="50" /> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity id: id: type: integer fields: name: length: 50
Without doing anything else, the identifier is assumed to be manually assigned. That means your code would need to properly set the identifier property before passing a new entity to EntityManager#persist($entity).
A common alternative strategy is to use a generated value as the identifier. To do this, you use the @GeneratedValue annotation like this:
<?php class MyPersistentClass { /** * @Id @Column(type="integer") * @GeneratedValue */ private $id; }
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="MyPersistentClass"> <id name="id" type="integer"> <generator strategy="AUTO" /> </id> <field name="name" length="50" /> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity id: id: type: integer generator: strategy: AUTO fields: name: length: 50
This tells Doctrine to automatically generate a value for the identifier. How this value is generated is specified by the strategy attribute, which is optional and defaults to 'AUTO'. A value of AUTO tells Doctrine to use the generation strategy that is preferred by the currently used database platform. See below for details.
4.8.1. Identifier Generation Strategies¶
The previous example showed how to use the default identifier generation strategy without knowing the underlying database with the AUTO-detection strategy. It is also possible to specify the identifier generation strategy more explicitly, which allows to make use of some additional features.
Here is the list of possible generation strategies:
- AUTO (default): Tells Doctrine to pick the strategy that is preferred by the used database platform. The preferred strategies are IDENTITY for MySQL, SQLite and MsSQL and SEQUENCE for Oracle and PostgreSQL. This strategy provides full portability.
- SEQUENCE: Tells Doctrine to use a database sequence for ID generation. This strategy does currently not provide full portability. Sequences are supported by Oracle and PostgreSql.
- IDENTITY: Tells Doctrine to use special identity columns in the database that generate a value on insertion of a row. This strategy does currently not provide full portability and is supported by the following platforms: MySQL/SQLite (AUTO_INCREMENT), MSSQL (IDENTITY) and PostgreSQL (SERIAL).
- TABLE: Tells Doctrine to use a separate table for ID generation. This strategy provides full portability. *This strategy is not yet implemented!*
- NONE: Tells Doctrine that the identifiers are assigned (and thus generated) by your code. The assignment must take place before a new entity is passed to EntityManager#persist. NONE is the same as leaving off the @GeneratedValue entirely.
220.127.116.11. Sequence Generator¶
The Sequence Generator can currently be used in conjunction with Oracle or Postgres and allows some additional configuration options besides specifying the sequence's name:
<?php class User { /** * @Id * @GeneratedValue(strategy="SEQUENCE") * @SequenceGenerator(name="tablename_seq", initialValue=1, allocationSize=100) */ protected $id = null; }
<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="User"> <id name="id" type="integer"> <generator strategy="SEQUENCE" /> <sequence-generator sequence-name="tablename_seq" allocation-size="100" initial-value="1" /> </id> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
MyPersistentClass: type: entity id: id: type: integer generator: strategy: SEQUENCE sequenceGenerator: sequenceName: tablename_seq allocationSize: 100 initialValue: 1
The initial value specifies at which value the sequence should start.
The allocationSize is a powerful feature to optimize INSERT performance of Doctrine. The allocationSize specifies by how much values the sequence is incremented whenever the next value is retrieved. If this is larger than 1 (one) Doctrine can generate identifier values for the allocationSizes amount of entities. In the above example with allocationSize=100 Doctrine 2 would only need to access the sequence once to generate the identifiers for 100 new entities.
The default allocationSize for a @SequenceGenerator is currently 10.
The allocationSize is detected by SchemaTool and transformed into an "INCREMENT BY " clause in the CREATE SEQUENCE statement. For a database schema created manually (and not SchemaTool) you have to make sure that the allocationSize configuration option is never larger than the actual sequences INCREMENT BY value, otherwise you may get duplicate keys.
It is possible to use strategy="AUTO" and at the same time specifying a @SequenceGenerator. In such a case, your custom sequence settings are used in the case where the preferred strategy of the underlying platform is SEQUENCE, such as for Oracle and PostgreSQL.
4.8.2. Composite Keys¶
Doctrine 2 allows to use composite primary keys. There are however some restrictions opposed to using a single identifier. The use of the @GeneratedValue annotation is only supported for simple (not composite) primary keys, which means you can only use composite keys if you generate the primary key values yourself before calling EntityManager#persist() on the entity.
To designate a composite primary key / identifier, simply put the @Id marker annotation on all fields that make up the primary key.
4.9. Quoting Reserved Words¶
It may sometimes be necessary to quote a column or table name because it conflicts with a reserved word of the particular RDBMS in use. This is often referred to as "Identifier Quoting". To let Doctrine know that you would like a table or column name to be quoted in all SQL statements, enclose the table or column name in backticks. Here is an example:
/** @Column(name="`number`", type="integer") */
private $number;
Doctrine will then quote this column name in all SQL statements according to the used database platform.
Identifier Quoting is not supported for join column names or discriminator column names.
Identifier Quoting is a feature that is mainly intended to support legacy database schemas. The use of reserved words and identifier quoting is generally discouraged. Identifier quoting should not be used to enable the use non-standard-characters such as a dash in a hypothetical column test-name. Also Schema-Tool will likely have troubles when quoting is used for case-sensitivity reasons (in Oracle for example).


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