https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/T6Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:55:57 +0000<p>Oh, maybe it’s not possible!</p> <p><a href="https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.7/reference/faq.html#can-i-sort-by-a-function-for-example-order-by-rand-in-dql">https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.7/reference/faq.html#can-i-sort-by-a-function-for-example-order-by-rand-in-dql</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Can I sort by a function (for example ORDER BY RAND()) in DQL?</p> <p>No, it is not supported to sort by function in DQL. If you need this functionality you should either use a native-query or come up with another solution. As a side note: Sorting with ORDER BY RAND() is painfully slow starting with 1000 rows.</p> </blockquote>https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/P18https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/P18Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:57:00 +0000<p>It’s the middle of the morning here, but that doesn’t matter. I’m attempting to add tags to Twyne (I’d link that, but still haven’t implemented hyperlinks in my Sam-flavoured Markdown). It’s going fine, it’s not a complicated thing to do really, but I’m bumping skulls with Doctrine ORM. I’ve used it before for a couple of projects, but not for a while, and I’d forgotten how frustrating it is to be poking at DQL or a query builder and <em>trying</em> to make it work — when the equivalent SQL is simple and easy! I wouldn’t mind if this was something complicated, but ordering by the count of a joined table shouldn’t take an hour to figure out.</p>https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/P17https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/P17Wed, 04 Nov 2020 01:42:00 +0000