create-user.md

Creating a User

Creating a User involves several things that you should not forget such as encrypting the password and granting authorization based on different conditions. For this reason, it's very discouraged to simply call the UserRepository::save() method to create a User. Instead, you must use the UserCreator service:

use App\Service\UserCreator;
use App\Service\UserCreatorException;

public function myController(UserCreator $userCreator)
{
    $email = '[email protected]';
    $name = 'Alix Hambourg';
    $password = 'secret';

    try {
        $user = $userCreator->create(
            email: $email,
            name: $name,
            password: $password,
        );
    } catch (UserCreatorException $e) {
        $errors = $e->getErrors();
        // Do something with the errors, such as displaying them in a form.
    }

    // or if you already have a User entity object
    try {
        $userCreator->createUser($user);
    } catch (UserCreatorException $e) {
    }
}

The service automatically flushes the changes so Doctine writes the user to the database immediately. If you want to delay the flush, you can pass flush: false to the methods.