In various cases I need to sort a Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection
according to a property in the object. Without finding a method doing that right away, I do this:
// $collection instanceof Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection
$array = $collection->getValues();
usort($array, function($a, $b){
return ($a->getProperty() < $b->getProperty()) ? -1 : 1 ;
});
$collection->clear();
foreach ($array as $item) {
$collection->add($item);
}
I presume this is not the best way when you have to copy everything to native PHP array and back. I wonder if there is a better way to "usort" a Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection
. Do I miss any doc?
To sort an existing Collection you are looking for the ArrayCollection::getIterator() method which returns an ArrayIterator. example:
$iterator = $collection->getIterator();
$iterator->uasort(function ($a, $b) {
return ($a->getPropery() < $b->getProperty()) ? -1 : 1;
});
$collection = new ArrayCollection(iterator_to_array($iterator));
The easiest way would be letting the query in the repository handle your sorting.
Imagine you have a SuperEntity with a ManyToMany relationship with Category entities.
Then for instance creating a repository method like this:
// Vendor/YourBundle/Entity/SuperEntityRepository.php
public function findByCategoryAndOrderByName($category)
{
return $this->createQueryBuilder('e')
->where('e.category = :category')
->setParameter('category', $category)
->orderBy('e.name', 'ASC')
->getQuery()
->getResult()
;
}
... makes sorting pretty easy.
Hope that helps.