Symfony 2/Doctrine: How to lower the num of queries without losing the benefit of ORM?

Question

I\'m using Symfony 2.7 with Doctrine. My controller actions often look like:

# my/namespace/Controller/ItemsController.php          


        

Answer 1

As other's have said, you should fetch the group Entities inside your repository. You can use something like this:

//inside the repository
public function findAllFetchGroups(){

  return $this->createQueryBuilder('a')
    ->addSelect('gs')->join('a.groups', 'gs')
    ->getQuery()->getResult();
}