PHP: Symfony2 MySQL SELECT query in controler - php

Question

I created a database on phpMyAdmin localhost. I have set database configurations in symfony and created doctrine mapper (entity). Now all I need is to make SELECT query and get information from database:
TABLE NAME: Profile
ROWS: 1
CONTROLLER CODE:
...
use Ignas\IgnasBundle\Entity\Profilis;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
class DefaultController extends Controller
{
public function indexAction()
{
$profilis = new Profilis();
return new Response('Id '.$profilis->getId());
}
}
getId method is from Entity/Profilis file Profilis class.
Is there any easy way to do this? I searched for a while and all I could find was doctrine syntax that is not familliar to me at all.

Answer 1

you can do it in different ways:
first of all, get the EntityManager in your Controller
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
in case it says it's deprecated you can also get it like:
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
then you can do it with the QueryBuilder or with the createQuery method
With Select method (as suggested in the comments)
$profilis= $em->select('p.id')
->from('BundleName:EntityName', 'p')
->getQuery()
->getResult();
simple Query:
$query = $em->createQuery("SELECT * FROM Profilis p");
$profilis = $query->getResult();
NOTE
both methods return an array of Profilis so you can simply loop them this way:
foreach($profilis as $p){
// do whatever you want
}