. */ namespace App\Doctrine; use Doctrine\Bundle\DoctrineBundle\EventSubscriber\EventSubscriberInterface; use Doctrine\DBAL\Event\ConnectionEventArgs; use Doctrine\DBAL\Events; use Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\SqlitePlatform; /** * This subscriber is used to add the regexp operator to the SQLite platform. * As a PHP callback is called for every entry to compare it is most likely much slower than using regex on MySQL. * But as regex is not often used, this should be fine for most use cases, also it is almost impossible to implement a better solution. */ class SQLiteRegexExtension implements EventSubscriberInterface { public function postConnect(ConnectionEventArgs $eventArgs): void { $connection = $eventArgs->getConnection(); //We only execute this on SQLite databases if ($connection->getDatabasePlatform() instanceof SqlitePlatform) { $native_connection = $connection->getNativeConnection(); //Ensure that the function really exists on the connection, as it is marked as experimental according to PHP documentation if($native_connection instanceof \PDO && method_exists($native_connection, 'sqliteCreateFunction' )) { $native_connection->sqliteCreateFunction('REGEXP', function ($pattern, $value) { return (false !== mb_ereg($pattern, $value)) ? 1 : 0; }); } } } public function getSubscribedEvents(): array { return[ Events::postConnect ]; } }