Doctrine: Counting an entity's items with a condition

Question

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()         


        

Answer 1

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);