How to change doctrine entity property in symfony?

@wilmer.lemke 

To change a Doctrine entity property in Symfony, follow these steps:

1. Open the appropriate entity file in your Symfony project.
2. Locate the property that you want to change and modify its definition as desired.

For example, let's say you have an Article entity with a property called title, and you want to change the data type of this property from string to text. The initial property definition might look like this:

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/**
 * @ORMColumn(type="string", length=255)
 */
private $title;

To change it to a text data type, simply modify the @ORMColumn annotation to specify the new type:

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/**
 * @ORMColumn(type="text")
 */
private $title;

1. Review the potential implications of this change. Changing a property's data type may affect your database schema, so make sure to consider the consequences and adjust your schema accordingly. You may need to run doctrine:migrations:diff and then doctrine:migrations:migrate commands to update the database schema.
2. Save the entity file and ensure that your application is configured with proper Doctrine migrations setup, so that any necessary database schema changes are executed.

By following these steps, you can successfully change a Doctrine entity property in Symfony.