Doctrine Collection contains empty model object

I 开发者_如何学Pythonam using Doctrine 1.2 with Zend Framework. When I fetch a result set as a Doctrine collection, the collection object contains an empty model object of a given type if the returned result-set returned from the DB is empty.

This is quite confusing as we are relying on the count method of Doctrine_Collection to show either a listing of the returned results or an appropriate message when the query returns an empty collection.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

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I also thought this was annoying. You want to test for actual results by calling Doctrine_Collection::count(), such as this scenario that we had:

if ( $collection->count() ) {
  // display some widget of the members of Doctrine_Collection
}

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The method suggested by yitznewton works for me.

Alternatively, you can test a known field for the first element (0) in the collection.

if ($collection[0]->id) {}