How can I count an entity's items with a condition in Doctrine? For example, I realize that I can use:
$usersCount = $dm->getRepository('User')->count();
But that will only count all users. I would like to count only those that have type employee. I could do something like:
$users = $dm->getRepository('User')->findBy(array('type' => 'employee'));
$users = count($users);
That works but it's not optimal. Is there something like the following:?
$usersCount = $dm->getRepository('User')->count()->where('type', 'employee');
Well, you could use the QueryBuilder to setup a COUNT
query:
Presuming that $dm
is your entity manager.
$qb = $dm->createQueryBuilder();
$qb->select($qb->expr()->count('u'))
->from('User', 'u')
->where('u.type = ?1')
->setParameter(1, 'employee');
$query = $qb->getQuery();
$usersCount = $query->getSingleScalarResult();
Or you could just write it in DQL:
$query = $dm->createQuery("SELECT COUNT(u) FROM User u WHERE u.type = ?1");
$query->setParameter(1, 'employee');
$usersCount = $query->getSingleScalarResult();
The counts might need to be on the id field, rather than the object, can't recall. If so just change the COUNT(u)
or ->count('u')
to COUNT(u.id)
or ->count('u.id')
or whatever your primary key field is called.
This question is 3 years old but there is a way to keep the simplicity of the findBy() for count with criteria.
On your repository you can add this method :
public function countBy(array $criteria)
{
$persister = $this->_em->getUnitOfWork()->getEntityPersister($this->_entityName);
return $persister->count($criteria);
}
So your code will looks like this :
$criteria = ['type' => 'employee'];
$users = $repository->findBy($criteria, ['name' => 'ASC'], 0, 20);
$nbUsers = $repository->countBy($criteria);