Combining and and or operators in Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria - php

Question

I'm just writing my first phalcon application and have a question for filtering a query using Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Criteria.
Finally I want a query like this
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE
status = 'A' AND
(
title LIKE 'combining%' OR
title LIKE 'phalcon%' OR
(
title LIKE 'criteria%' AND
title LIKE '%phalcon'
)
)
For me it seems there is no way for parenthesis in phalcons model criteria. The only way to achieve this is by writing phql.
Instead of writing a complete phql I maybe can write something like this, but that is getting the same complexity
<?php
$query = Table::query();
$query->where('status = :status:', array('status' => 'A'));
$query->andWhere('(
title LIKE :title1: OR
title LIKE :title2: OR (
title LIKE :title3: AND
title LIKE :title4:
)
)', array(
'title1' => 'combining%',
'title2' => 'phalcon%',
'title3' => 'criteria%',
'title4' => '%phalcon'
));

Answer 1

It looks like Criteria's "where", "andWhere" and "orWhere" methods will add the outer parenthesis for you, then you can manually write the inner parenthesis.
$query = Model::query()
->where('status = "A"')
->andWhere('title LIKE "combining%" OR
title LIKE "phalcon%" OR
(
title LIKE "criteria%" AND
title LIKE "%phalcon"
)
');
$models = $query->execute();
You can test that the where clause is correct.
var_dump($query->getWhere());