MongoL

Simple and small MongoDB wrapper library for CodeIgniter.
It works on top of the native PHP MongoDB Driver (http://php.net/mongo).

The idea is to be a as-small-as-possible library used only to ease database switching and authentication using a CI config file or a DSN.
In fact, all the parameters in the config file are converted to a single DSN string.
Opening a connection using a DSN is the preferred method, since it ensures that if the connection is dropped, the driver automatically attemp to reconnect and reauthenticate you.

How to use

The config file

The config file is very similar to CI's database.php config with the exception of the naming conventions.

As in CI's native database config file, you have config groups. You can define as many groups as you need and define one as the default group using $mdb['default_group'] = 'my-default-group' (replacing 'my-default-group' with the corresponding group name).

Here is a config example:

$mdb['default_group']    = 'mydb';

$mdb['mydb']['host'] = 'localhost';
$mdb['mydb']['port'] = 27017;
$mdb['mydb']['user'] = 'db_user';
$mdb['mydb']['pass'] = 'db_pass';
$mdb['mydb']['name'] = 'db_name';

The 'port', 'user' and 'pass' parameters are optional.

Accessing the database

One interesting feature in MongoL is that it will try to create "shortcuts" to the selected database by adding two public variables to the CI instance. One with the same name as the config group, and another one with the generic name "mdb", both pointing to the same MongoDB instance.
So if you have a group named 'mydb' you'll be able to do this $this->mydb->some_coll->find() for example, but if the variable name is already taken, MongoL will not overwrite it, instead you can still access the db through "mdb" like so $this->mdb->some_coll->find() or through the library name variable like this $this->mongol->mydb->some_coll->find().

Remember that the latter is the native way, so if you mess up the database name the PHP MongoDB driver will try to issue an equivalent to the shell's use mydb selecting a new database without failing.
There's also been cases where the authentication of the db returned using this way is dropped when used before the CodeIgniter core class is loaded, if that's the case you need to get the db with $this->mongol->get_db().

Accessing the db with $this->mdb is the preferred way, since you may want to change the group name or use a different group in development than the one used in production, making the code useless.
Despite this recommendation, using the group name may come in handy when having multiple connections, making it easy to use either one, since $this->mdb will always contain the database loaded with the default group.

Selecting other databases

You can select (or "use") other databases by calling Mongol::use_db('otherdb') where 'otherdb' is the group name that holds the config group as defined in your mongodb.php config.
If you need to connect to a database that is not defined in your config file, you can pass a DSN string instead of a group name, MongoL will recognize it and try to connect to it, for example: Mongol::use_db("mongo://user:pass@localhost/otherdb")

If the $group parameter you passed Mongol::use_db corresponds to a valid group name, MongoL will try to create a shortcut in CI instance with this name. But if the parameter is a DSN there's no group name, so the database name will be used instead, so using the example above, this database will be available through $this->otherdb.
Mongol::use_db will always return the new instance as well. But if you don't want it to create the shortcuts, you can pass TRUE as the second parameter:

$m = Mongol::use_db('otherdb', TRUE);
$otherdb = $m->get_db();

Mongol::use_db will never overwrite the original connection and shortcuts.

Requirements

• CodeIgniter 2+
• PHP 5.1+
• MongoDB PHP Driver More info
• MongoDB 2.0.4 It may work with older versions...

Installation

Spark Installation

1. Download and install Sparks into your project from http://getsparks.org/.

2. Open the terminal, go to your CI+Sparks project root and type

   `php tools/spark install -v1.0.1 MongoL`
   

Copyright & License

MongoL is licensed under MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Luciano Longo

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