Doctrine 2: Find entity using entity relations

calumbrodie picture calumbrodie · May 10, 2011 · Viewed 36.7k times · Source

Say I have two entities in Doctrine2 that are related to each other, Models\User and Models\Comment. If I do this in Doctrine 2.0.0...

<?php
// $em instanceof EntityManager, $user instanceof Models\User
$comments = $em->getRepository('Models\Comment')
    ->findBy(array('user' => $user, 'public' => true));

...I get a PHP error:

Severity: Notice

Message: Object of class Models\User to string conversion

Filename: DBAL/Connection.php

Line Number: 574

This shouldn't happen, right? If I use the QueryBuilder and setParameter('user', $user) it works as expected.

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