Fetching Collection of SugarCRM Beans - php

Question

Programmatically speaking, is there a way to fetch an array or collection of SugarCRM bean objects?
That is, let's say I wanted to fetch a number of account rows that included the word Bank in their name. With raw SQL, I'd do something like this
SELECT *
FROM Accounts
WHERE name LIKE '%Associates%`;
Is there a way using the SugarCRM ORM to so something similar? If not, how do SugarCRM programmers typically handle this situation? I realize I could hack something together by selecting a list of IDs from the database
$db = DBManagerFactory::getInstance();
$result = $db->query('SELECT id FROM Accounts where name LIKE "%Banking%"');
$accounts = array();
while($row = $db->fetchRow($result))
{
$accounts[] = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts', $row['id']);
}
but in most ORM's that would be considered inefficient, and bad practice. Is there a better way?
(Perfectly ready for the answer to be "No, there's not way to do that". I'm new to the platform and trying to get my bearings)

Answer 1

Rather use
$bean = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts');
$account_list = $bean->get_full_list("", "accounts.name like '%Associates%'");
As get_list will give you what you have defined for list_max_entries_per_page.

Answer 2

Here is a great resource for different ways to use the standard SugarBean versus SQL: here
For your example:
$bean = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts');
$account_list = $bean->get_list("", "accounts.name like '%Associates%'");

Answer 3

This is an old question but for future readers, SugarBean methods get_list() and get_full_list() seem to be deprecated and it is advised to use SugarQuery instead.
$bean = BeanFactory::getBean('Accounts');
$query = new SugarQuery();
$query->from($bean, array('team_security' => false));
$query->where()->contains('name', 'Associates');
$account_list = $query->execute();