Count and group-by with Propel

Question

In Doctrine I can do:

public function getCount() 
{        
        $q = $this->createQuery('q')
            ->select('*')
            ->addSelect('count(q.name) as count')
            ->groupBy('q.name')
            ->orderBy('count DESC');

        return $q->execute();        
}

How can I do the same in Propel in Symfony 1.4?

Answer 1

Damned! It's easier than that!

If you need to count result rows for a given query, you need to use the count() termination method, basically:

MyTableQuery::create()->count();

Read the following documentation section for more information: http://www.propelorm.org/documentation/03-basic-crud.html#query_termination_methods

If you want to add a count or nb extra column to your query which represent a SQL aggregate functions like COUNT or SUM, then you should use the withColumn() method:

$query = MyTableQuery::create()
    ->withColumn('COUNT(*)', 'Count')
    ->select(array('Name', 'Count'))
    ->groupByName()
    ->orderByCount()
    ;

$results = $query->find();

Answer 2

try :

public function getCount() 
    $c = new Criteria();
    $c->addAsColumn('count', 'count(name)');
    $c->addDescendingOrderByColumn($c->getColumnForAs('count')); 
    $c->addGroupByColumn('name');
    return self::doCount($c);
}

There are some good snippets of info on propel queries here -> http://snippets.symfony-project.org/snippets/tagged/criteria/order_by/date