I have an entity "Clients" with a relation manytomany with an entity "Preferences", so there is an intermediate table clients_preferences of course.
The relation works FINE and for a client I can display all its preferences in TWIG with something like
{% if not client.preferences.empty %}
<p>
{% for preference in client.preferences %}
{{ preference.name }}{% if not loop.last %}, {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</p>
{% endif %}
BUT:
I want to be able to get the preferences list INSIDE my controller Something like
$preferences = $preference1." - ".$preference2......;
(It is because I will need to send this list after via JSON...)
So, I create a query to get my client row:
$query = $em->createQuery('SELECT c FROM SamplemyBundle:Clients c WHERE c.email = ?1')
->setParameter(1, $email);
$result = $query->getSingleResult();
As you see I select one client by his email, and I get one row in return because the email is unique and I am able to have different things from the client like his firstname, lastname etc...by doing:
$firstname = $result->getFirstname();
All is fine, just the problem is that I don't know how to deal with the preferences list in the controller. I guess I have to make a loop....
Below my entity Clients
class Clients
{
/**
* @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="Sample\myBundle\Entity\Preferences", cascade={"persist"})
*/
private $preferences;
/**
* @var integer
*
* @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* @ORM\Id
* @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
private $id;
/**
* @var string
*
* @ORM\Column(name="firstname", type="string", length=255)
*/
private $firstname;
And my entity Preferences
class Preferences
{
/**
* @var integer
*
* @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* @ORM\Id
* @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
private $id;
/**
* @var string
*
* @ORM\Column(name="name", type="string", length=255)
*/
private $name;
If someone has an idea, it will be great, thank you by advance.