Compare dates between datetimes with Doctrine

Question

I have a Syfmony2 app with a table which has a date field. This date field is a DateTime type.

I need to get all the entities which the same date as now.

But

Answer 1

I see this simple way:

$now = new \DateTime();

$data = $entityRepository->getByDate($now);

then in your repository

public function getByDate(\Datetime $date)
{
    $from = new \DateTime($date->format("Y-m-d")." 00:00:00");
    $to   = new \DateTime($date->format("Y-m-d")." 23:59:59");

    $qb = $this->createQueryBuilder("e");
    $qb
        ->andWhere('e.date BETWEEN :from AND :to')
        ->setParameter('from', $from )
        ->setParameter('to', $to)
    ;
    $result = $qb->getQuery()->getResult();

    return $result;
}