Using Raw SQL with Doctrine

Question

I have some extremely complex queries that I need to use to generate a report in my application. I\'m using symfony as my framework and doctrine as my ORM.

My quest

Answer 1

I'm not sure what do you mean saying raw SQL, but you coud execute traditional SQL queries this way:

... 
// $this->_displayPortabilityWarning();

$conn = Doctrine_Manager::connection();
$pdo = $conn->execute($sql);
$pdo->setFetchMode(Doctrine_Core::FETCH_ASSOC);
$result = $pdo->fetchAll();
...

The following method is not necsessary, but it shows a good practice.

protected function _displayPortabilityWarning($engine = 'pgsql')
{
     $conn = Doctrine_Manager::connection();
     $driver = $conn->getDriverName();

     if (strtolower($engine) != strtolower($driver)) {
        trigger_error('Here we have possible database portability issue. This code was tested on ' . $engine . ' but you are trying to run it on ' . $driver, E_USER_NOTICE);
     }
}