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I am trying to get Doctrine2 Entities , ordered by their ID which apparently is a String even though it contains only Numbers. So what I would like to do is something like this: SELECT entity1, cast (entity1.id AS integer) AS orderId FROM Namespace\Bla\MyEntity ORDER BY orderId Is there a way to do something like this in Doctrine2 ? Or, what would be the best practise to get my Result if i can't change the type of the id ( due to customer requirements of course )? Attention : I am not asking SQL Code, i am asking for a Doctrine2 Solution, preferably in DQL You should be able to add your own

I get a strange error when I execute this DQL query: SELECT u FROM User u LEFT JOIN u.schedule s WHERE DATE(s.timestamp) = DATE(NOW()) The exception is thrown by Doctrine with the message: Expected known function, got 'DATE' The problem looks similar to this bug , but that addresses the DATE() function in a GROUP BY clause and the bug is closed for Doctrine 2.2. At this moment, I get the exception with doctrine 2.4-DEV. The query is meant to select all users scheduled for today. Is there any way I can create this DQL? I tested the SQL version in phpMyAdmin and there the query does not raise an

Here is how I query my database for some words $query = $qb->select('w') ->from('DbEntities\Entity\Word', 'w') ->where('w.indictionary = 0 AND w.frequency > 3') ->orderBy('w.frequency', 'DESC') ->getQuery() ->setMaxResults(100); I'm using mysql and I'd like to get random rows that match the criteria, I would use order by rand() in my query. I found this similar question which basically suggests since ORDER BY RAND is not supported in doctrine, you can randomize the primary key instead. However, this can't be done in my case because I have a search criteria and a where clause so that not every