Author Steve Francia provides readers with a guide to using MongoDB with PHP. He briefly introduces the reader to MongoDB and why it's a good match for PHP. Once the foundation is laid, learn how to connect to the database, perform CRUD operations, and perform queries. More advanced topics are covered next, such as mapreduce, gridfs and sharding. Readers will also discover the community tools and libraries available in PHP, along with the reasons to use them.

About the Author
Steve is the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen where leads the public side of the engineering organization. Prior to 10gen Steve led OpenSky to become the first ecommerce site powered by MongoDB and one of the first PHP sites one of the first PHP sites backed by MongoDB. His previous roles include CIO/COO at Portero, VP of Development at Takkle and Founder & CTO of Supernerd. Steve loves open source. He has contributed to dozens of open source projects including MongoDB, Doctrine, Symfony2, Magento and Zoop and has started a few of his own. Steve holds a BA from Brigham Young University, where among other things, he created and taught a course on dynamic web development.


Book Information
ISBN 9781449314361
Author Steve Francia
Format Paperback
Page Count 50
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media