With Doctrine2 you cannot override save method but you can execute preUpdate() method.
See below how to implement it.
On your entity class, for example AdminBundle/Entity/Annonce.php, add the HasLifecycleCallbacks annontation
/** * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Tripix\AdminBundle\Repository\AnnonceRepository") * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks */
And your method, with the annotation
/** @ORM\PreUpdate() */ public function preUpdate() { $this->created_at = new \DateTime("now"); }
That’s all, it should works.
A complete example, just in case :
<?php namespace Tripix\AdminBundle\Entity; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert; use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection; /** * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Tripix\AdminBundle\Repository\AnnonceRepository") * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks */ class Annonce { /** @ORM\PreUpdate() */ public function preUpdate() { $this->created_at = new \DateTime("now"); } public function __construct() { $this->created_at = new \DateTime("now"); $this->visuels = new ArrayCollection(); }