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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)

Installing the MongoDB PHP extension

In this section, we will cover the steps to install the MongoDB PHP extension on Windows and Linux/Mac. It is highly recommended for both Linux and macOS users to use PECL (http://pecl.php.net/) to install ext/mongodb. PECL stands for PHP Extension Community Library. It is a repository which contains PHP extensions that are written in C language, which must be compiled and enabled in the php.ini file. For a Windows installation, on the other hand, all you need to do is to install the appropriate *.dll file, and enable the extension in the php.ini file.

ext/mongodb installation using PECL

The pecl command is used for low level PHP engine packaging and distribution. This system is shared...