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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

By : Doug Bierer
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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

MongoDB has grown to become the de facto NoSQL database with millions of users, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. It can solve problems that are considered difficult, if not impossible, for aging RDBMS technologies. Written for version 4 of MongoDB, this book is the easiest way to get started with MongoDB. You will start by getting a MongoDB installation up and running in a safe and secure manner. You will learn how to perform mission-critical create, read, update, and delete operations, and set up database security. You will also learn about advanced features of MongoDB such as the aggregation pipeline, replication, and sharding. You will learn how to build a simple web application that uses MongoDB to respond to AJAX queries, and see how to make use of the MongoDB programming language driver for PHP. The examples incorporate new features available in MongoDB version 4 where appropriate.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Developing with Program Language Drivers

In Chapter 3, Using the Mongo Shell, you learned how to formulate basic CRUD operations using the JavaScript functions which the shell executed. In this chapter, you will learn how the same sort of operations can be performed using the PHP MongoDB driver. In addition, this chapter summarizes external PHP libraries and the integration of the Mongo PHP driver with various PHP frameworks.

The reason why PHP was chosen is because it is one of the most widely used web programming languages and is easy to understand, especially if you have a background in C language. Other popular languages such as Java, JavaScript, and Python are already well-documented on the MongoDB website (https://docs.mongodb.com/ecosystem/drivers/) and have plenty of examples, whereas this is not the case for PHP.

The version of PHP featured in this chapter is PHP 7.2...