Caching Doctrine results Symfony2

Question

I am working on a Symfony2 project. My project uses database to store the data and Doctrine2 to retrieve that data.

As the data within the database has grown the qu

Answer 1

You need to have your cache driver installed and configured in doctrine configuration (result_cache_driver is important in your case). Once you have this done you can make Doctrine to use result cache by setting useResultCache(true)

$cachedResult = $doctrine->getManager()
    ->createQueryBuilder()
    ->(...)
    ->useResultCache(true)
    ->(...)

Check this blog post

NOTE: by default, in dev environment, result cache won't be used

EDIT: as you're using DBAL and not using ORM - SymfonyDoctrineBundle doesn't support this kind of cache out of the box, but you can add this support by yourself by following this detailed guide