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- Getting Started: Database First
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- .. note:: *Development Workflows*
- When you :doc:`Code First <getting-started>`, you
- start with developing Objects and then map them onto your database. When
- you :doc:`Model First <getting-started-models>`, you are modelling your application using tools (for
- example UML) and generate database schema and PHP code from this model.
- When you have a :doc:`Database First <getting-started-database>`, you already have a database schema
- and generate the corresponding PHP code from it.
- .. note::
- This getting started guide is in development.
- Development of new applications often starts with an existing database schema.
- When the database schema is the starting point for your application, then
- development is said to use the *Database First* approach to Doctrine.
- In this workflow you would modify the database schema first and then
- regenerate the PHP code to use with this schema. You need a flexible
- code-generator for this task and up to Doctrine 2.2, the code generator hasn't
- been flexible enough to achieve this.
- We spinned off a subproject, Doctrine CodeGenerator, that will fill this gap and
- allow you to do *Database First* development.
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