MongoDB and PHP: Document-Oriented Data for Web Developers

Whatwould happen if you optimized a data store for the operations applicationdevelopers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliabledocument-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to buildelegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.

Writtenby the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen—the company that develops andsupports this open source database—this book takes you through MongoDB basicssuch as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives intoMapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relationaldatabase rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized foroperations and scale.

• Learn step-by-step the tools you need to build PHP applications with MongoDB
• Perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations, and learn how to perform queries to retrieve data
• Administer your database, and access and manipulate data with the MongoDB Shell
• Use functions to work with sets, arrays, and multiple documents to perform synchronous, asynchronous, and atomic operations
• Discover PHP’s community tools and libraries, and why they’re valuable
• Work with regular expressions, aggregation, MapReduce, replication, and sharding

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