Doctrine's date field - how to write query

Question

I\'m using Symfony2 and Doctrine.

I have a date field, here it is:

/**
  * @ORM\\Column(type=\"date\")
  */
 protected $date;

In my

Answer 1

I think this is because a DateTime object is too much specific and have also hours, minutes and seconds, so it can't be equal to a registered date in database !

If you want to use DateTime objects, you need to get the date of the beginning of the day and the end date to get all results of the day ! You must compare an interval of dates to get all dates between it.

First, get the start and the end dates of the current day (to simplify, we will base the end date on the beginning of the next day, and we will exclude it in the request) :

$fromDate = new \DateTime('now'); // Have for example 2013-06-10 09:53:21
$fromDate->setTime(0, 0, 0); // Modify to 2013-06-10 00:00:00, beginning of the day

$toDate = clone $fromDate;
$toDate->modify('+1 day'); // Have 2013-06-11 00:00:00

And modify your method :

public function findExpensesForDate($user, $fromDate, $toDate)
{
    $q = $this
        ->createQueryBuilder('e')
        ->where('e.date >= :fromDate')
        ->andWhere('e.date < :toDate')
        ->andWhere('e.user = :user')
        ->setParameter('fromDate', $fromDate)
        ->setParameter('toDate', $toDate)
        ->setParameter('user', $user)
         ->getQuery();

    return $q->getResult();
}

That's all, it should work, here the script :

$expenses_for_today = $this->repository->findExpensesForDate($this->user, $fromDate, $toDate);

So you will get all the dates between the 2013-06-10 00:00:00 and the 2013-06-11 00:00:00 (excluded), so the results of the day !

Answer 2

As others have mentioned, thats due to the time in DateTime.

Yet why am I answering?

Because I want to make you aware of the $qb->expr()->between()function.

The following snippet is from my ReservationRepository where I need to find the reservations for a given date ($today). My reservations have both a dateFrom and a dateTo attribute.

    if(null !== $today) {
        $today0 = new \DateTime($today->format("Y-m-d"));
        $today23 = new \DateTime($today->format("Y-m-d"));

        $today0->setTime(0,0,0);
        $today23->setTime(23,59,59);

        $qb->where($qb->expr()->orX(
            $qb->expr()->orX(
                $qb->expr()->between('r.dateFrom', ':today0', ':today23'),
                $qb->expr()->between('r.dateTo', ':today0', ':today23')
            ),
            $qb->expr()->andX(
                $qb->expr()->lte('r.dateFrom', ':today23'),
                $qb->expr()->gte('r.dateTo', ':today0')
            )
        ));
        $qb->setParameter('today0', $today0);
        $qb->setParameter('today23', $today23);
    }

The function between() saves me two lines of code in this example, and I find it to be more readable.