MySQL User defined variable within Doctrine and Symfony

Question

I have the following Doctrine statement which works fine.

$query = $this->createQuery(\'r\')
            ->select(\'u.id, CONCAT(u.first_name, \" \", L         


        

Answer 1

if you are using MySQL, and no switches to other DBMS are foreseen, maybe you could try

$query = $this->createQuery('r')
            ->select('COUNT(u.id) as rank, u.id, CONCAT(u.first_name, " ", LEFT(u.last_name,1)) as full_name, u.first_name, u.last_name, u.gender, r.run_time')
            ->innerJoin('r.ChallengeUser u')
            ->orderBy('run_time')
            ->execute(array(), Doctrine::HYDRATE_ARRAY);