Question

I am having 2 issues with fetching data from doctrine:

1. Select records from start of month to current date
2. Select records from start of year to current date

How can I write a Doctrine queries to do the same thing as we do in Mysql

Here is my incomplete code from my repository?

public function findByYearlyAttendanceTillToday($id)
{
    $em = $this->getEntityManager();
    $query = $em->createQuery("SELECT count(a) FROM CollegeStudentBundle:StudentAttendance a where a.present LIKE 'A' and a.student_id = :id and a.date > :date");
    $query->setParameter('id', $id);
    $query->setParameter('date', **?????**);
    return $query->getResult();
}

Answer 1

Here is what you need:

new \DateTime('midnight first day of this month');
new \DateTime('first day of january');

I would also change this:

a.date > :date

to this:

a.date >= :date