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How to Register custom DQL Functions

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How to Register custom DQL Functions¶

Doctrine allows you to specify custom DQL functions. For more information on this topic, read Doctrine’s cookbook article “DQL User Defined Functions”.

In Symfony, you can register your custom DQL functions as follows:

YAML

# app/config/config.yml
doctrine:
    orm:
        # ...
        dql:
            string_functions:
                test_string: AppBundle\DQL\StringFunction
                second_string: AppBundle\DQL\SecondStringFunction
            numeric_functions:
                test_numeric: AppBundle\DQL\NumericFunction
            datetime_functions:
                test_datetime: AppBundle\DQL\DatetimeFunction

XML

<!-- app/config/config.xml -->
<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:doctrine="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/doctrine"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd
                        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/doctrine http://symfony.com/schema/dic/doctrine/doctrine-1.0.xsd">

    <doctrine:config>
        <doctrine:orm>
            <!-- ... -->
            <doctrine:dql>
                <doctrine:string-function name="test_string">AppBundle\DQL\StringFunction</doctrine:string-function>
                <doctrine:string-function name="second_string">AppBundle\DQL\SecondStringFunction</doctrine:string-function>
                <doctrine:numeric-function name="test_numeric">AppBundle\DQL\NumericFunction</doctrine:numeric-function>
                <doctrine:datetime-function name="test_datetime">AppBundle\DQL\DatetimeFunction</doctrine:datetime-function>
            </doctrine:dql>
        </doctrine:orm>
    </doctrine:config>
</container>

PHP

// app/config/config.php
use AppBundle\DQL\StringFunction;
use AppBundle\DQL\SecondStringFunction;
use AppBundle\DQL\NumericFunction;
use AppBundle\DQL\DatetimeFunction;

$container->loadFromExtension('doctrine', array(
    'orm' => array(
        // ...
        'dql' => array(
            'string_functions' => array(
                'test_string'   => StringFunction::class,
                'second_string' => SecondStringFunction::class,
            ),
            'numeric_functions' => array(
                'test_numeric' => NumericFunction::class,
            ),
            'datetime_functions' => array(
                'test_datetime' => DatetimeFunction::class,
            ),
        ),
    ),
));

Note

In case the entity_managers were named explicitly, configuring the functions with the orm directly will trigger the exception Unrecognized option “dql” under “doctrine.orm”. The dql configuration block must be defined under the named entity manager.

XML

# app/config/config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:doctrine="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/doctrine"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/doctrine
        http://symfony.com/schema/dic/doctrine/doctrine-1.0.xsd">

    <doctrine:config>
        <doctrine:orm>
            <!-- ... -->

            <doctrine:entity-manager name="example_manager">
                <!-- place your functions here -->
                <doctrine:dql>
                    <doctrine:datetime-function name="test_datetime">
                        AppBundle\DQL\DatetimeFunction
                    </doctrine:datetime-function>
                </doctrine:dql>
            </doctrine:entity-manager>
        </doctrine:orm>
    </doctrine:config>
</container>

PHP

// app/config/config.php
use AppBundle\DQL\DatetimeFunction;

$container->loadFromExtension('doctrine', array(
    'doctrine' => array(
        'orm' => array(
            // ...
            'entity_managers' => array(
                'example_manager' => array(
                    // place your functions here
                    'dql' => array(
                        'datetime_functions' => array(
                            'test_datetime' => DatetimeFunction::class,
                        ),
                    ),
                ),
            ),
        ),
    ),
));

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