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Steve Francia (Author)
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Publication Date: 3 Feb 2012 | ISBN-10: 1449314368 | ISBN-13: 978-1449314361 | Edition: 1

What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.

Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen—the company that develops and supports this open source database—this book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations 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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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (3 Feb 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449314368
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449314361
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 0.4 x 23.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Document-Oriented Data for Web Developers

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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars OMG, utter rubbish! 26 Sep 2012
By L. Morris
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The first thing that struck me about this book is that it is hardly a book at all. At a mere 62 pages it is more of a white paper / tutorial / pamphlet.

Having spent a day or two reading a few free tutorials on the web I was further disappointed to realised that I already knew everything I read in the book, and more on top of that. The book even suggests using ->skip() for paging, but website tutorials claim it is better to filter out the previous pages instead as it is faster to select the subset than it is to select the whole and then have the cursor skip X results. This was just one of the useful things I have learned for free on the web which wasn't mentioned in this "book."

I really can't believe I just paid £13 for this, and it is absolutely beyond me why a good publisher such as O'REILLY would have published it.

If you buy this book then you are too stupid to program, get another job/hobby :-)
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3.0 out of 5 stars For PHP developers trying to explore the non-RDBMS space 24 Dec 2012
By Thanasis Efthymiou
Format:Paperback
The way I see it, when you're called to write a book review, it's all about the reader's perception about how good it is - and that is very, very subjective. When it comes to programming books, then I guess it has a lot to do with the reader's own expertise, too.
I've read some pretty nasty reviews about this book on Amazon and some pretty good reviews on oreilly.com. So, here are my thoughts.

First of all, when I think of programming and/or databases books, I think of heavyweights. That's definitely not the case here. At 62 pages, this is more a white paper than it is a book. It is basically a white paper for experienced PHP developers who have seen a couple of NoSQL technologies or are haunted by the limitations of MySQL and need a few good reasons why they should switch to MongoDB. Thus, there are several MongoDB features introduced but there is hardly the attempt to teach how to use them or to explain them in detail; the text simply acts as a reminder that "this feature exists, go Google it to see how it works in detail".

I have very little experience with PHP and decent experience with MongoDB. What I liked most is that I was able to understand almost everything PHP-wise; that is, apart from all references to the PHP frameworks out there, which should be very meaningful to all readers already using PHP. What I didn't like is that, not only I didn't really learn anything new about MongoDB, but there are a few parts that are already heavily outdated, too - but that is, of course, not the author's fault. A typical example is the all new aggregation framework introduced in MongoDB 2.2 which is missing. Additionally, I found its structure not to be optimal in the sense that bits and pieces of information about a given subject exists in a couple of places instead of having it all gathered in one spot.

All in all, I think this book is targeted to very specific PHP developers with greater than average database know-how, who are trying to bypass the limitations of their current DB model. If you understand what sharding or eventually consistent mean and you are exploring the NoSQL (or even better, the non-RDBMS) space, then this book could help you. If you are a beginner with PHP or MongoDB, then there are a few other books that you could find much more useful than this.

If I could, I would rate it 2.5 out of 5.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A very informative pamphlet 28 Nov 2012
By S. Banda
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I read this book a few months ago as a first exploration into NoSQL databases. I'm writing this review because I think 1 star is a little too harsh.

The book is by no means exhaustive, probably aimed more at more senior developers who need only an introduction to a concept and an idea of what functions are available to begin more serious development.

This book hardly offers any extensive examples, but as far as introducing you to MongoDB and how you can work with it in real world situations, I think it does a good job.

It is over-priced though. Especially considering you don't even need to read the full book to decide whether or not this is technology you want to work with.

It is a good read though.
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