symfony - Count Rows in Doctrine QueryBuilder

Question

I'm using Doctrine's QueryBuilder to build a query, and I want to get the total count of results from the query.

$repository = $em->getRepository('FooBundle:Foo');

$qb = $repository->createQueryBuilder('n')
        ->where('n.bar = :bar')
        ->setParameter('bar', $bar);

$query = $qb->getQuery();

//this doesn't work
$totalrows = $query->getResult()->count();

I just want to run a count on this query to get the total rows, but not return the actual results. (After this count query, I'm going to further modify the query with maxResults for pagination.)

Answer 1

Something like:

$qb = $entityManager->createQueryBuilder();
$qb->select('count(account.id)');
$qb->from('ZaysoCoreBundle:Account','account');

$count = $qb->getQuery()->getSingleScalarResult();

Some folks feel that expressions are somehow better than just using straight DQL. One even went so far as to edit a four year old answer. I rolled his edit back. Go figure.