Tips are stored on the central PartKeepr server in a wiki. However, we need to know a list of all tip pages
because the API has a limit per day. So basically, we sync the tip names from the wiki to the local system several
times a day and not each time an user logs in.
Note: If you wish to link against a tip of the day, do it by name and not by id!
public function load(ObjectManager $manager)
{
$tipOfTheDay = new TipOfTheDay();
$tipOfTheDay->setName('FOO');
$manager->persist($tipOfTheDay);
$manager->flush();
$this->addReference('tipoftheday', $tipOfTheDay);
}
/**
* Updates the tip database. Expects an array of page names.
*
* This method clears all page names and re-creates them. This saves
* alot of engineering, because we don't need to match contents
* within the database against contents in an array.
*
* @param array $aPageNames The page names as array. Page names are stored as string.
*/
private function updateTipDatabase(array $aPageNames)
{
$dql = 'DELETE FROM PartKeepr\\TipOfTheDayBundle\\Entity\\TipOfTheDay';
$query = $this->entityManager->createQuery($dql);
$query->execute();
foreach ($aPageNames as $pageName) {
$tip = new TipOfTheDay();
$tip->setName($pageName);
$this->entityManager->persist($tip);
}
$this->entityManager->flush();
}
