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Is there any way I can use having clause with EntityFieldQuery? I want to get the nodes which have same field value similar to HAVING clause in SQL. Or do I need to do other ways? Please suggest if there is any good way to do this.

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You can use the havingCondition available in the query builder.

$query = db_select('node, 'n');

// add fields or other conditions

$query->havingCondition('nid', array(1, 2, 3), 'IN');
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  • EntityFieldQuery doesn't have that method...
    – Clive
    Oct 21, 2013 at 17:04
  • Thank you Mike and Clive. I did it using havingCondition for now.
    – cissharp
    Oct 21, 2013 at 18:48
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You could subclass EntityFieldQuery and add a having() method, or (probably quicker) you can add a tag to the query, and use hook_query_TAG_alter() to alter it when it's a standard SelectQuery:

function MYMODULE_query_my_tag_alter(QueryAlterableInterface $query) {
  $query->having('some_field > :val', array(':val' => $some_val));
}

To use that with your query:

$query = new \EntityFieldQuery();
$query->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node')
  ->fieldCondition(...)
  ->addTag('my_tag');
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  • There is a havingCondition you could take a look at api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21database%21select.inc/… though you would probably still need to do something to expose it.
    – Steven
    Oct 21, 2013 at 17:13
  • @Steven yeah havingCondition() is probably better to use than having() actually, unless it needs a complex expression. The only ways to expose those methods are to write a subclass of EntityFieldQuery which implements them (and alters the underlying query by overriding EntityFieldQuery::execute()), or alter the query like the code above. Fortunately it's a very small amount of code
    – Clive
    Oct 21, 2013 at 17:18

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