Doctrine - DQL- multiple ORs nested within one encapsulating AND

Question

I can't find an example of DQL, here's what the semi-pseudocode would look like:

Bring back invoices
- Where company id = 5
AND
    (
      ->where('DATE(i.startPeriod) BETWEEN :startDate AND :endDate')
      ->orWhere('DATE(i.endPeriod) BETWEEN :startDate AND :endDate')
      ->orWhere(':startDate BETWEEN DATE(i.startPeriod) and DATE(i.endPeriod)')
      ->orWhere(':endDate BETWEEN DATE(i.startPeriod) and DATE(i.endPeriod)')
    )

So you have four OR's nested within one encapsulating AND.

Does anyone know how to do that with Doctrine DQL? Nest a bunch of OR's within one giant AND?

Answer 1

You would need to use the Expr() class with the query builder.

// $qb instanceof QueryBuilder

$qb->select('i')
   ->from('invoices', 'i')
   ->where('c.id = :cid')
   ->andWhere($qb->expr()->orX(
       $qb->expr()->between('i.startPeriod',':startdate',':enddate'),
       $qb->expr()->between('i.endPeriod',':startdate',':enddate'),
...

You can read more about the Expr() class in the documentation.

EDIT:

Just realized your initial question asked specifically about DQL. You can use parens in DQL to group things, so something like this.

$query = $em->createQuery(
   'SELECT i FROM Invoices i 
    WHERE c.id = :id 
    AND (
        (i.startPeriod BETWEEN :startDate AND :endDate) 
        OR 
        (i.endPeriod BETWEEN :startDate AND :endDate)
        OR 
        (:startDate BETWEEN i.startPeriod AND i.endPeriod)
        OR
        (:endDate BETWEEN i.startPeriod AND i.endPeriod)
    ) JOIN i.company c');