Doctrine2 Insert and retrieve new insert ID

Question

In Doctrine2 using some thing like:

$user = array(\'username\' => \'example\', \'passsword\' => \'changeme\');

$conn->insert(\'users\', $user);
         


        

Answer 1

One can use the Doctrine\DBAL\Connection::lastInsertId() method.

It can be used with native queries as well as manually written inserts.

Example case:

$query = 'INSERT INTO blabla...';
$connection->executeUpdate($query, $params);

var_dump($connection->lastInsertId());

If using the ORM, you can obtain an instance of the connection from the entity manager:

$connection = $em->getConnection();

Note:
Aside from the technical details, I agree with @Layke for using an entity for your specific case.