Querying data from a child model - zend-framework

Question

I have 3 models that I have setup thus far in a simple application I am working on:
So far I have these models:
UserAccountEntity - Top level Table (Has a One-Many Relationship to UserAccountEntityStrings)
UserAccountEntityStrings - Child Table (Has a Many-One relation ship to UserAccountEntity and EavAttributes
EavAttributes - Lookup Table
When I query data from my top level table, I get the schema,association information for the child table. But I do not get any of the persisted data from the child table.
What I expected the results to be were, the data from the top level model and the data from the associated child model. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
A note that may be helpful, I am using Zend 1.11.10 and Doctrine 2
This is what my query looks like:
$users = $em->createQuery('select u from Fiobox\Entity\UserModule\UserAccountEntity u')->execute();
Zend_Debug::dump($users[0]);
This is the association in my top level model:
/**
*
* #param \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection $property
* #OneToMany(targetEntity="UserAccountEntityStrings",mappedBy="UserAccountEntity", cascade={"persist","remove"})
*/
private $strings;
These are the associations in my child model:
/**
*
* #var UserAccountEntity
* #ManyToOne(targetEntity="UserAccountEntity")
* #JoinColumns({
* #JoinColumn(name="entity_id", referencedColumnName="entity_id")
* })
*/
private $user;
/**
* #var EavAttribute
* #ManyToOne(targetEntity="Fiobox\Entity\EavModule\EavAttributes")
* #JoinColumn(name="attribute_id", referencedColumnName="attribute_id")
*/
private $attributes;

Answer 1

Have you actually tried anything?
Doctrine will lazy load stuff for you. Your var_dump probably shows persistent collections of proxy objects for your child objects. But if you access them, they'll be loaded automatically:
<?php
$users = $em->createQuery('select u from Fiobox\Entity\UserModule\UserAccountEntity u')->fetchAll();
foreach($users as $u){
foreach($u->strings as $s){
var_dump($s);
}
}
If you know that you're going to need all that child data, you might as well force a fetch-join in your DQL:
<?php
$users = $em->createQuery('select u, s from Fiobox\Entity\UserModule\UserAccountEntity u JOIN u.strings s')->fetchAll();