Doctrine_manual-1-2-en

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// test.php
// ...
$users[0]->username = "Jack Daniels";
$users[1]->username = "John Locke";
Accessing elements with get()
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echo $users->get(1)->username;
Adding new Elements
When accessing single elements of the collection and those elements (records) don't exist
Doctrine auto-adds them.
In the following example we fetch all users from database (there are 5) and then add couple
of users in the collection.
As with PHP arrays the indexes start from zero.
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// test.php
// ...
$users = $userTable->findAll();
echo count($users); // 5
$users[5]->username = "new user 1";
$users[6]->username = "new user 2";
You could also optionally omit the 5 and 6 from the array index and it will automatically
increment just as a PHP array would:
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// test.php
// ...
$users[]->username = 'new user 3'; // key is 7
$users[]->username = 'new user 4'; // key is 8
Getting Collection Count
The Doctrine_Collection::count() method returns the number of elements currently in
the collection.
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// test.php
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$users = $userTable->findAll();
echo $users->count();
Since Doctrine_Collection implements Countable interface a valid alternative for the
previous example is to simply pass the collection as an argument for the count() function.
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// test.php
// ...
echo count($users);
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