I have an application running on a server (production) that does not give access to ../vendor/bin/doctrine and therefore I can not run the commands, like orm:schema-tool:update , for example. I'm running the commands in my development environment, typically.
How do I access the commands executed by orm:schema so that I can run them correctly in my production environment, simulating the ORM action itself and keeping the banks properly paired?
Instead of accessing the ../vendor/bin/doctrine executable commands, you can create a web-accessible script (of course, with some authentication required) to do what you need.
See this section in Doctrine documentation .
In short, just instantiate SchemaTool by passing its EntityManager as an argument, and call the updateSchema method by passing the classes of your application as an argument:
<?php
$tool = new \Doctrine\ORM\Tools\SchemaTool($em);
$classes = array(
$em->getClassMetadata('Entities\User'),
$em->getClassMetadata('Entities\Profile')
);
$tool->updateSchema($classes);