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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)

Performing CRUD operations using PHPLIB

Something of critical interest to developers is how to perform basic CRUD operations using ext/mongodb. You will note that PHPLIB, by design, is very closely modeled after the MongoDB JavaScript command set covered in Chapter 3, Using the Mongo Shell. The main difference is that instead of having arguments formulated as JSON expressions, when using PHPLIB, expressions use native PHP data types (for example, arrays, objects, and so on).

Core PHPLIB class instances needed for CRUD operations

It is important to note that all of the CRUD operations that we are going to discuss require that you create a MongoDB\Collection instance. This can be accomplished in several ways, including:

  • MongoDB...