MongoDB PHP install guide and tutorial

Installing MongoDB to work with PHP and Apache (tutorial)

Installing and setting up MongoDB to work with PHP See installing MongoDB to install MongoDB. Node.js , Ruby, and Python in that order are the trend setter crowd in our industry circa 2012. Java is the corporate crowd, and PHP is the workhorse of the Internet. The "get it done" crowd. You can't have a decent NoSQL solution without having good PHP support. Installing MongoDB to work with PHP is simple. To install MongoDB support with PHP use pecl as follows: $ sudo pecl install mongo Add the mongo.so module to php.ini. extension=mongo.so Then assuming you are running it on apache, restart as follows: $ apachectl stop $ apachectl start Figure 1 shows our roughly equivalent code listing in PHP. Figure 1 PHP code listing The output for figure 1 is as follows: Output: array ( '_id' => MongoId::__set_state(array( '$id' => '4f964d3000b5874e7a163895', )), 'name' => 'Rick Hightower', 'gender' => 'm', 'phone' => '520-555-1212', 'age' => 42, ) array ( '_id' => MongoId::__set_state(array( '$id' => '4f984cae72329d0ecd8716c8', )), 'name' => 'Diana Hightower', 'gender' => ‘f', 'phone' => '520-555-1212', 'age' => 30, ) array ( '_id' => MongoId::__set_state(array( '$id' => '4f9e170580cbd54f27000000', )), 'gender' => 'm', 'age' => 8, 'name' => 'Lucas Hightower', 'phone' => '520-555-1212', ) The other half of the equation is in figure 2. Figure 2 PHP code listing The output for figure 2 is as follows: Output Rick? array ( '_id' => MongoId..., 'name' => 'Rick Hightower', 'gender' => 'm', 'phone' => '520-555-1212', 'age' => 42, ) Diana? array ( '_id' => MongoId::..., 'name' => 'Diana Hightower', 'gender' => ‘f', 'phone' => '520-555-1212', 'age' => 30, ) Diana by id? array ( '_id' => MongoId::..., 'name' => 'Diana Hightower', 'gender' => 'f', 'phone' => '520-555-1212', 'age' => 30, ) Here is the complete PHP listing. PHP complete listing <!--?php $m = new Mongo(); $db = $m->selectDB("tutorial"); $employees = $db->selectCollection("employees"); $cursor = $employees->find(); foreach ($cursor as $employee) { echo var_export ($employee, true) . "< br />"; } $cursor=$employees->find( array( "name" => "Rick Hightower")); echo "Rick? < br /> " . var_export($cursor->getNext(), true); $cursor=$employees->find(array("age" => array('$lt' => 35))); echo "Diana? < br /> " . var_export($cursor->getNext(), true); $cursor=$employees->find(array("_id" => new MongoId("4f984cce72320612f8f432bb"))); echo "Diana by id? < br /> " . var_export($cursor->getNext(), true); ?> If you like Object mapping to documents you should try the poorly named MongoLoid for PHP. If you would like to learn more about MongoDB consider the following resources: Excellent MongoDB article on MongoDB written by one of Mammatus Technologies founder Rick Hightower MongoDB Training for Java Developers by Mammatus Technology MongoDB Training for PHP Developers by Mammatus Technology MongoDB Training for Python Developers by Mammatus Technology The official MongoDB tutorial at MongoDB.org. Mongo DB is wrong. It is MongoDB. Always put the DB next to Mongo.