How to ORDER BY CASE in Doctrine2 (Symfony2)

Question

I want to run this query by using Doctrine in Symfony 2.3. But it seems like Doctrine does not understand CASE statement. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

If you are using createQueryBuilder then you can use like

$query->addSelect("(CASE WHEN name like 'John %' THEN 0
           WHEN name like 'John%' THEN 1
           WHEN name like '% John%' THEN 2
           ELSE 3 END) AS HIDDEN ORD ");
$query->orderBy('ORD', 'DESC');

Note that you must have "HIDDEN".

You can do with doctrine native query as well.