After using Doctrine DBAL for a while, I’ve realized that I always fetch an object. There may be some good reasons to fetch an array, but I never do. The documentation for Doctrine DBAL is nice, in fact I think it is wonderful how basic usage is explained, but not everything is covered. After digging around in the code, I found out how to set a default fetch mode so I don’t have to do it in all my queries. You can do it right as you make your connection to the database.
<php $connectionParams = array( 'dbname' => 'mydb', 'user' => 'user', 'password' => 'secret', 'host' => 'localhost', 'driver' => 'pdo_mysql' ); $conn = \\Doctrine\\DBAL\\DriverManager::getConnection( $connectionParams ); $conn->setFetchMode( \\PDO::FETCH_OBJ );
The last line in the example above is setting the fetch mode to default to object.
V. Morales says:
Good tip. DBAL is the bomb. Thanks.