Count Rows in Doctrine QueryBuilder

I'm using Doctrine's QueryBuilder to build a query, and I want to get the total count of results from the query.

$repository = $em->getRepository('FooBundle:Foo');

$qb = $repository->createQueryBuilder('n')
        ->where('n.bar = :bar')
        ->setParameter('bar', $bar);

$query = $qb->getQuery();

//this doesn't work
$totalrows = $query->getResult()->count();

I just want to run a count on this query to get the total rows, but not return the actual results. (After this count query, I'm going to further modify the query with maxResults for pagination.)

Something like:

$qb = $entityManager->createQueryBuilder();
$qb->select('count(account.id)');
$qb->from('ZaysoCoreBundle:Account','account');
    
$count = $qb->getQuery()->getSingleScalarResult();

Some folks feel that expressions are somehow better than just using straight DQL. One even went so far as to edit a four year old answer. I rolled his edit back. Go figure.

Here is another way to format the query:

return $repository->createQueryBuilder('u')
            ->select('count(u.id)')
            ->getQuery()
            ->getSingleScalarResult();

It's better to move all logic of working with database to repositores.

So in controller you write

/* you can also inject "FooRepository $repository" using autowire */
$repository = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository(Foo::class);
$count = $repository->count();

And in Repository/FooRepository.php

public function count()
{
    $qb = $repository->createQueryBuilder('t');
    return $qb
        ->select('count(t.id)')
        ->getQuery()
        ->getSingleScalarResult();
}

It's better to move $qb = ... to separate row in case you want to make complex expressions like

public function count()
{
    $qb = $repository->createQueryBuilder('t');
    return $qb
        ->select('count(t.id)')
        ->where($qb->expr()->isNotNull('t.fieldName'))
        ->andWhere($qb->expr()->orX(
            $qb->expr()->in('t.fieldName2', 0),
            $qb->expr()->isNull('t.fieldName2')
        ))
        ->getQuery()
        ->getSingleScalarResult();
}

Also think about caching your query result - http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/doctrine.html#caching-drivers

public function count()
{
    $qb = $repository->createQueryBuilder('t');
    return $qb
        ->select('count(t.id)')
        ->getQuery()
        ->useQueryCache(true)
        ->useResultCache(true, 3600)
        ->getSingleScalarResult();
}

In some simple cases using EXTRA_LAZY entity relations is good
http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/tutorials/extra-lazy-associations.html

If you need to count a more complex query, with groupBy, having etc... You can borrow from Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Paginator:

$paginator = new \Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Paginator($query);
$totalRows = count($paginator);

Since Doctrine 2.6 it is possible to use count() method directly from EntityRepository. For details see the link.

https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/blob/77e3e5c96c1beec7b28443c5b59145eeadbc0baf/lib/Doctrine/ORM/EntityRepository.php#L161

Example working with grouping, union and stuff.

Problem:

 $qb = $em->createQueryBuilder()
     ->select('m.id', 'rm.id')
     ->from('Model', 'm')
     ->join('m.relatedModels', 'rm')
     ->groupBy('m.id');

For this to work possible solution is to use custom hydrator and this weird thing called 'CUSTOM OUTPUT WALKER HINT':

class CountHydrator extends AbstractHydrator
{
    const NAME = 'count_hydrator';
    const FIELD = 'count';

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    protected function hydrateAllData()
    {
        return (int)$this->_stmt->fetchColumn(0);
    }
}
class CountSqlWalker extends SqlWalker
{
    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function walkSelectStatement(AST\SelectStatement $AST)
    {
        return sprintf("SELECT COUNT(*) AS %s FROM (%s) AS t", CountHydrator::FIELD, parent::walkSelectStatement($AST));
    }
}

$doctrineConfig->addCustomHydrationMode(CountHydrator::NAME, CountHydrator::class);
// $qb from example above
$countQuery = clone $qb->getQuery();
// Doctrine bug ? Doesn't make a deep copy... (as of "doctrine/orm": "2.4.6")
$countQuery->setParameters($this->getQuery()->getParameters());
// set custom 'hint' stuff
$countQuery->setHint(Query::HINT_CUSTOM_OUTPUT_WALKER, CountSqlWalker::class);

$count = $countQuery->getResult(CountHydrator::NAME);

For people who are using only Doctrine DBAL and not the Doctrine ORM, they will not be able to access the getQuery() method because it doesn't exists. They need to do something like the following.

$qb = new QueryBuilder($conn);
$count = $qb->select("count(id)")->from($tableName)->execute()->fetchColumn(0);

To count items after some number of items (offset), $qb->setFirstResults() cannot be applied in this case, as it works not as a condition of query, but as an offset of query result for a range of items selected (i. e. setFirstResult cannot be used togather with COUNT at all). So to count items, which are left I simply did the following:

   //in repository class:
   $count = $qb->select('count(p.id)')
      ->from('Products', 'p')
      ->getQuery()
      ->getSingleScalarResult();

    return $count;

    //in controller class:
    $count = $this->em->getRepository('RepositoryBundle')->...

    return $count-$offset;

Anybody knows more clean way to do it?

Adding the following method to your repository should allow you to call $repo->getCourseCount() from your Controller.

/**
 * @return array
 */
public function getCourseCount()
{
    $qb = $this->getEntityManager()->createQueryBuilder();

    $qb
        ->select('count(course.id)')
        ->from('CRMPicco\Component\Course\Model\Course', 'course')
    ;

    $query = $qb->getQuery();

    return $query->getSingleScalarResult();
}

You can also get the number of data by using the count function.

$query = $this->dm->createQueryBuilder('AppBundle:Items')
                    ->field('isDeleted')->equals(false)
                    ->getQuery()->count();