Doctrine MongoDB

The Doctrine MongoDB project is a simple layer that wraps the PECL Mongo extension and adds new functionality like logging, events, a query builder and improves the API user friendliness.

It is very easy to use, you only need a new Connection instance:

use Doctrine\MongoDB\Connection;

$connection = new Connection();

If the default setup is not good for you then you can pass some optional arguments like the following:

use Doctrine\MongoDB\Connection;
use Doctrine\MongoDB\Configuration;
use Doctrine\Common\EventManager;

$config = new Configuration();
$evm = new EventManager();
$conn = new Connection('mongodb://localhost', array('connect' => false), $config, $evm);

Now it is almost identical to the PECL extensions API:

$coll = $conn->selectDatabase('dbname')->selectCollection('users');
$user = array(
    'username' => 'jwage'
);
$coll->insert($user);

echo $user['_id']; // new id assigned in _id key

It comes with some additional functionality like an object oriented query builder:

$qb = $coll->createQueryBuilder()
    ->field('username')->equals('jwage');

$query = $qb->getQuery();
$user = $query->getSingleResult();

It also adds the ability to connect to events that get triggered internally. The list of available events are:

• preBatchInsert
• postBatchInsert
• preSave
• postSave
• preInsert
• postInsert
• preUpdate
• postUpdate
• preRemove
• postRemove
• preFind
• postFind
• preFindOne
• postFindOne
• preFindAndRemove
• postFindAndRemove
• preFindAndUpdate
• postFindAndUpdate
• preGroup
• postGroup
• preGetDBRef
• postGetDBRef
• preCreateDBRef
• postCreateDBRef
• preDistinct
• postDistinct
• preNear
• postNear
• preCreateCollection
• postCreateCollection
• preSelectDatabase
• postSelectDatabase
• preDropDatabase
• postDropDatabase
• preSelectCollection
• postSelectCollection
• preDropCollection
• postDropCollection
• preGetGridFS
• postGetGridFS
• preConnect
• postConnect

You can connect to these events using the EventManager:

use Doctrine\MongoDB\Events;
use Doctrine\MongoDB\Events\EventArgs;

$connectionEvents = new ConnectionEvents();
$evm->addEventListener(Events::preConnect, $connectionEvents);

Now we just need to write the simple PHP class we initialized above:

class ConnectionEvents
{
    public function preConnect(EventArgs $eventArgs)
    {
        // do something before the connection to mongodb is initialized
    }
}