whenever i insert a entity that already exists in database (i have a unique constraint on email) i get an error message on the screen.

so i want to check if it already exists, if not i insert it.

at the moment it looks like this:

$q = Doctrine_Query::create()
    ->from('User u')
    ->where('u.email = ?', $email);

$object = $q->fetchOne();

if( ! is_object($object)) {
          $user = new User();
          $user-email = $email;
          $user->save();
    }

i wonder, if there an easier way to do this?

thanks