How to get Doctrine entity persistent collection data values with symfony

Question

What is best way to convert Doctrine entity persistent collection to array with symfony 2 ? I want to get the values and later by using that array value, need to get the second entity values which dependent on first entity using form event listener.

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, this helps you:

$arrayValues = $persistentCollection->getValues();

Answer 2

$yourCollection->unwrap()->toArray();

That should give you the content of your collection as an array()