What's your experience with Doctrine ORM? [closed]

Answer 1

For now I'm using Symfony framework with Doctrine ORM, how about using Doctrine together with plain queries? For e.g. from knpuniversity, I can create custom repository method like:

     public function countNumberPrintedForCategory(Category $category)
    {
        $conn = $this->getEntityManager()
            ->getConnection();
        $sql = '
            SELECT SUM(fc.numberPrinted) as fortunesPrinted, AVG(fc.numberPrinted) as fortunesAverage, cat.name
            FROM fortune_cookie fc
            INNER JOIN category cat ON cat.id = fc.category_id
            WHERE fc.category_id = :category
            ';
        $stmt = $conn->prepare($sql);
        $stmt->execute(array('category' => $category->getId()));
        return $stmt->fetch();
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    }

I'm just use Doctrine Entities for e.g. creating an processing forms, When I need more complex query I just make plain statement and take values I need, from this example I can also pass Entity as variable and take it values for making query. I think this solution is easy understand and it takes less time for building forms, passing data for them and writing complex queries is not as hard as writing them with Doctrine.