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PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide

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PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

With the rise of Web 2.0, the need for a highly scalable database, capable of storing diverse user-generated content is increasing. MongoDB, an open-source, non-relational database has stepped up to meet this demand and is being used in some of the most popular websites in the world. MongoDB is one of the NoSQL databases which is gaining popularity for developing PHP Web 2.0 applications.PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is a fast-paced, hands-on guide to get started with web application development using PHP and MongoDB. The book follows a “Code first, explain later” approach, using practical examples in PHP to demonstrate unique features of MongoDB. It does not overwhelm you with information (or starve you of it), but gives you enough to get a solid practical grasp on the concepts.The book starts by introducing the underlying concepts of MongoDB. Each chapter contains practical examples in PHP that teache specific features of the database.The book teaches you to build a blogging application, handle user sessions and authentication, and perform aggregation with MapReduce. You will learn unique MongoDB features and solve interesting problems like real-time analytics, location-aware web apps etc. You will be guided to use MongoDB alongside MySQL to build a diverse data back-end. With its concise coverage of concepts and numerous practical examples, PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide is the right choice for the PHP developer to get started with learning MongoDB.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PHP and MongoDB Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

RockMongo versus phpMoAdmin


Now that we have played with both RockMongo and phpMoAdmin, let us compare these two GUI tools based on some important factors and try to figure out which one is more suited to our specific needs.

Feature

RockMongo (v1.1.0)

phpMoAdmin (1.1.0)

Installation

Installation is quite easy. Some configuration is needed to turn password-protection on.

Installation is very simple. Just drop the single script app in a directory on the web server and it is ready to go.

Configurability

User can change the default configuration settings by modifying the well-commented config.php file.

Not as configurable. User will have to delve deep into the code and tweak the default settings.

User authentication

Supports both app level and database level user authentication. Allows the user to add/remove users on a MongoDB database.

Only app level user authentication. No support for authenticating/adding/removing users defined in MongoDB.

Interface

The UI is very clean...