Order attribute of an object in Symfony - php

Question

I would like to reorder the attribute (COMMENTS) of my object (instance of ARTICLE) after I retrieve it from the DBB. Is this possible?
My object is ARTICLE and it is linked to COMMENTS (which is defined as a collection in entity article)
I know I can order through the repository but the order of my comments depend on many conditions, some not available through the DB.
Condition exemple:
I want at the top the comment whose attribute show_first are set to true whatever their score, and then the other comments ordered depending of their score.

Answer 1

You could add a hidden field to you query that sorting things in the order that you wanted so that you don't need to process the complete ArrayCollection to sort.
public function findByArticleInOrderOfState()
{
return $this->createQueryBuilder('c')
->select('c')
->addSelect('
CASE
WHEN c.state = :state_new THEN 1
WHEN c.state = :state_viewed THEN 2
WHEN c.state = :state_deleted THEN 3
ELSE 4
END AS HIDDEN order_by
')
->setParameter('state_new', 'new')
->setParameter('state_viewed', 'viewed')
->setParameter('state_deleted', 'deleted')
->orderBy('order_by', 'ASC')
->addOrderBy('c.createdAt', 'ASC')
->getQuery()
->getResults();
}
This would create a hidden field order_by and set that depending on the current state of that object, then it would order by that hidden field and then createdAt.
It doesn't really make sense to order comments like that but it does show how you could do it. With a little more info on the actual use case I would (hopefully) be able to make work a bit closer to your specific needs.
Update
In your case when you have show_first == 'yes'|'no' you could do the following..
public function findByArticleInOrderOfState()
{
return $this->createQueryBuilder('c')
->select('c')
->addSelect('
CASE
WHEN c.show_first = :show_first THEN 1
ELSE 2
END AS HIDDEN order_by
')
->setParameter('show_first', 'yes')
->orderBy('order_by', 'ASC')
->addOrderBy('c.createdAt', 'ASC')
->getQuery()
->getResults();
}

Answer 2

Set the getter of comments (getComments()) in your Article entity to get the comments in the order you want.
public function getComments(){
$iterator = $comments->getIterator();
$iterator->uasort(function ($a, $b) {
// change getProperty() with the field you want to order on
return ($a->getProperty() < $b->getProperty()) ? -1 : 1;
});
$comments= new ArrayCollection(iterator_to_array($iterator));
return $comments;
}
For more Infos visit this post "usort" a Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection?

Answer 3

For simple ordering of associations, you can use Doctrine annotations.
/**
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Comment", mappedBy="article")
* #ORM\OrderBy({"show_first" = "ASC", "score" = "DESC"})
*/
private $comments;
https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.7/tutorials/ordered-associations.html

Answer 4

The following possible within an entity object
public function getCommentsActiveLast3()
{
$criteria = Criteria::create();
$criteria->where(Criteria::expr()->eq('status', Comment::STATUS_PUBLISHED));
$criteria->setMaxResults(3);
if ($this->comments) {
return $this->comments->matching($criteria);
}
}