Using the Document Manager

Finding documents

Documents can be located using either their UUID or their path:

<?php
$document = $documentManager->find('/path/to/document');
$document = $documentManager->find('842e61c0-09ab-42a9-87c0-308ccc90e6f4');

To find a localized document:

$germanDocument = $documentManager->find('842e61c0-09ab-42a9-87c0-308ccc90e6f4', 'de');

Additionally, options can be specified:

<?php
$fooDocument = $documentManager->find('842e61c0-09ab-42a9-87c0-308ccc90e6f4', 'de', array(
    'my_option' => 'foobar',
));

Persisting documents

The Sulu Document Manager requires that you persist() documents and then flush the document manager.

Note

The persist operation, unlike other document/object managers, takes a snapshot of the document in its current state and maps the data to the PHPCR node.

Changes made to the document after calling persist will not be taken in to account when flush is called.

Below is a simple persist operation:

<?php
$document = new MyDocument();
$document->setTitle();

$documentManager->persist($document, 'fr', array(
    'path' => '/path/to/persist/to',
));

$documentManager->flush();

This persists the document in the French language at the path. The path is given as an option. The path option comes from the ExplicitPathSubscriber subscriber. The amount of options available depends on which subscribers you have registered.

See the Behaviors chapter for more information.

The Path Builder

The structure of the Sulu content repository is configurable. This means that if you hard code a path /cmf/sulu_io/contents then your code could break, as both the cmf and contents segments of this path are configurable.

The path builder provides a way to elegantly compose content repository paths by passing an array of path segments:

$pathBuilder = $container->get('sulu_document_manager.path_builder');
$path = $pathBuilder->build(array('%base%', 'sulu_io', '%content%', 'path/to/article');

The above code would produce the path /cmf/sulu_io/contents/path/to/article using the default configuration.k

Path segments enclosed within % characters are resolved by the PathSegmentRegistry, which uses configuration to map path segment names to values. Other segments are interpreted literally.