Add data when running Symfony migrations

Question

I have a Symfony project that is using the DoctrineMigrations bundle, and I have a really simple question: When I run a migration (e.g., when I'm pushing an update to production), how can I insert data to the database?

For example: I have an Entity which is the type of an add. The entity is:

private $addType; // String
private $type1;   // Boolean
private $type2;   // Boolean
private $type3;   // Boolean

I add another field ($type4), and I want to add a new record to the database, with this values:

$addType = 'Type number 4';
$type1 = false;
$type2 = false;
$type3 = false;
$type4 = true;

How can this be done with DoctrineMigrations? Is it possible?

Answer 1

Using the Entity Manager as suggested in another answer is not a good idea, as it leads to troubles later.

In the first migration, I created a table with users and populated some users via $em->persist($user); which seemed fine at the beginning.

But after a month, I added a phone column to my User model. And Doctrine generates INSERT statements with this column within the first migration, which fails due to the non-existing column phone. Of course it doesn't exist yet in the first migration. So it is better to go with pure SQL INSERTs.