How to get association foreign key IDs in Doctrine 2 without loading the associated object?

Question

Hi I\'m having trouble with what I thought would be an easy task.

I am retrieving a post from the database. The Post entity has a field createdBy which is associated

Answer 1

Use this on your query:

$q->setHint(\Doctrine\ORM\Query::HINT_INCLUDE_META_COLUMNS, true);
$q->getResult(\Doctrine\ORM\Query::HYDRATE_ARRAY);

Hydratation is disabled, so you have your result as an array.