findByExample in Doctrine

Question

Is there a method in Doctrine like Hibernate\'s findByExample method?

thanks

Answer 1

Yes.

Let's say you have a model called Users. You have the following two classes

abstract class Base_User extends Doctrine_Record 
{
   //define table, columns, etc
}

class User extends Base_User
{

}

in some other object you can do

$user = new User;

//This will return a Doctrine Collection of all users with first name = Travis
$user->getTable()->findByFirstName("Travis");

//The above code is actually an alias for this function call
$user->getTable()->findBy("first_name", "Travis");

//This will return a Doctrine Record for the user with id = 24
$user->getTable()->find(24);

//This will return a Doctrine Collection for all users with name=Raphael and 
//type = developer
$user->getTable()
     ->findByDql("User.name= ? AND User.type = ?", array("Raphael", "developer"));