How to select distinct query using symfony2 doctrine query builder?

This works:

$category = $catrep->createQueryBuilder('cc')
        ->select('cc.categoryid')
        ->where('cc.contenttype = :type')
        ->setParameter('type', 'blogarticle')
        ->distinct()
        ->getQuery();

$categories = $category->getResult();

Edit for Symfony 3 & 4.

You should use ->groupBy('cc.categoryid') instead of ->distinct()

If you use the "select()" statement, you can do this:

$category = $catrep->createQueryBuilder('cc')
    ->select('DISTINCT cc.contenttype')
    ->Where('cc.contenttype = :type')
    ->setParameter('type', 'blogarticle')
    ->getQuery();

$categories = $category->getResult();

you could write

select DISTINCT f from t;

as

select f from t group by f;

thing is, I am just currently myself getting into Doctrine, so I cannot give you a real answer. but you could as shown above, simulate a distinct with group by and transform that into Doctrine. if you want add further filtering then use HAVING after group by.