ifnull

How is the IFNULL of SQL implemented in Symfony2 Doctrine Query Builder? Let's say I have this query: select * from ticket order by IFNULL(modified_date, '2000-01-01') DESC, created_date DESC I have this DQL: $this->qb->select("t, c.name") ->from("Ticket", "t"); $this->qb->orderBy("t.modifiedDate", "DESC"); $this->qb->addOrderBy("t.createdDate", "DESC"); Now how to add the IFNULL part? ArVan Ok, done some research and found that there is no such implementation. Googled a little more, and got that this kind of missing features can be added to Doctrine as own functions. Found this extension on

I have a select statement where I want to make select conditional like this IFNULL(field_a,field_a,feild_b) so that it checks field a if a is null then the select would be field b is that possible ? OMG Ponies Use COALESCE : SELECT COALESCE(field_a, field_b) COALESCE is an ANSI standard function that returns the first non-null value from the list of columns specified, processing the columns from left to right. So in the example, if field_a is null, field_b value will be displayed. However, this function will return NULL if there is no non-null value from the columns specified. It's supported