How to set the database?

[pluc]

Hey. Simple question, but can't find ANY documentation on this anywhere, which is super weird.

How do you tell the ORM to use the database named "whatever"?? Normally (eg with PDO) I would expect to pass that in the connection settings, but doing so - using the same format as PDO, doesn't set the database name and so I'm left with a bunch of exceptions because I have "No database selected"...

[greg0ire]

The connection is not the concern of the ORM, maybe that's why you could not find docs about it? Here are the DBAL docs about this: https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/current/reference/configuration.html#configuration

[pluc]

Is it the DBAL that provisions the database based on the Entity models? Cause from where I'm sitting it looks like it should be the ORM itself, and when I run vendor/bin/doctrine orm:schema-tool:create, does it have anything to do with the DBAL? That's what is giving me the error, not the DBAL...

[pluc]

Found my answer (and it doesn't involve DBAL):

The parameter I had for "database name" in the configuration array passed to EntityManager::create() was using name instead of dbname.

[greg0ire]

It does involve the DBAL:

orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/EntityManager.php

Line 927 in 2362aa1

return DriverManager::getConnection($connection, $config, $eventManager ?: new EventManager());

(DriverManager is a class from the DBAL). dbname is mentioned in the documentation linked above.