Sortable

Sortable behavior will maintain a position field for ordering entities.\

• Automatic handling of position index
• Group entity ordering by one or more fields
• Can be nested with other behaviors
• Annotation, Yaml and Xml mapping support for extensions

Installation

Add LaravelDoctrine\Extensions\Sortable\SortableExtension to doctrine.extensions config.

Property annotation

@Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation\SortableGroup

This annotation will be used for grouping

@Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation\SortablePosition

This annotation will be used to store position index

<?php
namespace Entity;

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Article
{
    /** 
    * @ORM\Id
    * @ORM\GeneratedValue 
    * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
    */
    protected $id;

    /**
    * @Gedmo\SortablePosition
    * @ORM\Column(name="position", type="integer")
    */
    protected $position;

    /**
    * @Gedmo\SortableGroup
    * @ORM\Column(name="category", type="string", length=128)
    */
    protected $category;
}

For full documentation see here.