Question

Is there a way to order this query by the length of the string contained in the Title field?

    $query = $this->getEntityManager()
        ->createQuery('
    SELECT b FROM AcmeTestBundle:Blog b
    WHERE b.Title LIKE :title'
    )->setParameter('title','%'.$title.'%');

ORDER BY b.Title.length() doesn’t seem to work.

Answer 1

Yes, just try:

$query = $this->getEntityManager()->createQuery('SELECT LENGTH(b.Title) l, b FROM AcmeTestBundle:Blog b WHERE b.Title LIKE :title ORDER BY l')->setParameter('title','%'.$title.'%');