How to select distinct query using symfony2 doctrine query builder

Question

I have this symfony code where it retrieves all the categories related to a blog section on my project    category    catrep- gt createQueryBuilder  cc       - gt Where  cc contenttype    type       - gt setParameter  type    blogarticle       - gt getQuery      categories    category- gt getResult      This works  but the query includes duplicates   Test Content Business Test Content   I want to use the DISTINCT command in my query   The only examples I have seen require me to write raw SQL  I want to avoid this as much as possible as I am trying to keep all of my code the same so they all use the QueryBuilder feature supplied by Symfony2 Doctrine   I tried adding distinct   to my query like this    category    catrep- gt createQueryBuilder  cc       - gt Where  cc contenttype    type       - gt setParameter  type    blogarticle       - gt distinct  cc categoryid       - gt getQuery      categories    category- gt getResult      But it results in the following error      Fatal error  Call to undefined method Doctrine ORM QueryBuilder  distinct     How do I tell symfony to select distinct

User · Answer

This works   category    catrep- gt createQueryBuilder  cc           - gt select  cc categoryid           - gt where  cc contenttype    type           - gt setParameter  type    blogarticle           - gt distinct           - gt getQuery      categories    category- gt getResult     Edit for Symfony 3  amp  4  You should use - gt groupBy  cc categoryid   instead of - gt distinct

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If you use the  select    statement  you can do this    category    catrep- gt createQueryBuilder  cc       - gt select  DISTINCT cc contenttype       - gt Where  cc contenttype    type       - gt setParameter  type    blogarticle       - gt getQuery      categories    category- gt getResult

User · Answer

Just open your repository file and add this new function  then call it inside your controller    public function distinctCategories            return  this- gt createQueryBuilder  cc           - gt where  cc contenttype    type           - gt setParameter  type    blogarticle           - gt groupBy  cc blogarticle           - gt getQuery           - gt getResult                     Then within your controller   public function index YourRepository  repo         distinctCategories    repo- gt distinctCategories          return  this- gt render  your twig file html twig              distinctCategories    gt   distinctCategories             Good luck

User · Answer

you could write  select DISTINCT f from t    as  select f from t group by f    thing is  I am just currently myself getting into Doctrine  so I cannot give you a real answer  but you could as shown above  simulate a distinct with group by and transform that into Doctrine  if you want add further filtering then use HAVING after group by

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