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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to access MongoDB from PHP. You learned that there are two extensions, ext/mongo, which has been deprecated, and ext/mongodb. The latter extension actually consists of three layers: low level libraries supplied by the OS, drivers for PHP 5, PHP 7, and HVVM, and a high level library called PHPLIB. You then learned that installation on Windows involves choosing the right *.dll file based on your PHP installation, whereas for Linux and Mac it is recommended to perform the installation using PECL.

You learned how to perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations using PHPLIB. You also learned that you cannot directly search the auto-generated object ID, but rather need to create an ObjectId instance first, and then use that in the search. Finally, you learned that there are many PHP libraries for MongoDB which are available on the Packagist...