Symfony2 subquery within Doctrine entity manager - doctrine

Question

I need to perform this query:
SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM product WHERE car = 'large' ORDER BY onSale DESC) AS product_ordered GROUP BY type
In Symfony2 using the entity manager.
My basic query builder would be :
$query = $em->getRepository('AutomotiveBundle:Car')
->createQueryBuilder('p')
->where('pr.car = ?1')
->andWhere('pr.status = 1')
->orderBy('pr.onSale', 'DESC')
->setParameter(1, $product->getName())
->groupBy('p.type')
->getQuery();
But I cannot work out how to add in a subquery to this.
Ive tried making a separate query and joining it like:
->andWhere($query->expr()->in('pr.car = ?1',$query2->getQuery()));
But I get:
Call to undefined method Doctrine\ORM\Query::expr()

Answer 1

One trick is to build two queries and then use getDQL() to feed the first query into the second query.
For example, this query returns a distinct list of game ids:
$qbGameId = $em->createQueryBuilder();
$qbGameId->addSelect('distinct gameGameId.id');
$qbGameId->from('ZaysoCoreBundle:Event','gameGameId');
$qbGameId->leftJoin('gameGameId.teams','gameTeamGameId');
if ($date1) $qbGameId->andWhere($qbGameId->expr()->gte('gameGameId.date',$date1));
if ($date2) $qbGameId->andWhere($qbGameId->expr()->lte('gameGameId.date',$date2));
Now use the dql to get additional information about the games themselves:
$qbGames = $em->createQueryBuilder();
$qbGames->addSelect('game');
$qbGames->addSelect('gameTeam');
$qbGames->addSelect('team');
$qbGames->addSelect('field');
$qbGames->addSelect('gamePerson');
$qbGames->addSelect('person');
$qbGames->from('ZaysoCoreBundle:Event','game');
$qbGames->leftJoin('game.teams', 'gameTeam');
$qbGames->leftJoin('game.persons', 'gamePerson');
$qbGames->leftJoin('game.field', 'field');
$qbGames->leftJoin('gameTeam.team', 'team');
$qbGames->leftJoin('gamePerson.person', 'person');
// Here is where we feed in the dql
$qbGames->andWhere($qbGames->expr()->in('game.id',$qbGameId->getDQL()));
Kind of a long example but i didn't want to edit out stuff and maybe break it.

Answer 2

You can use DBAL for performing any sql query.
$conn = $this->get('database_connection');//create a connection with your DB
$sql="SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM product WHERE car =? ORDER BY onSale DESC) AS product_ordered GROUP BY type"; //Your sql Query
$stmt = $conn->prepare($sql); // Prepare your sql
$stmt->bindValue(1, 'large'); // bind your values ,if you have to bind another value, you need to write $stmt->bindValue(2, 'anothervalue'); but your order is important so on..
$stmt->execute(); //execute your sql
$result=$stmt->fetchAll(); // fetch your result
happy coding