Summary

Summary:

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.