NoSQL with MongoDB and Doctrine 2

Introduction to MongoDB

• Discovering the NoSQL movement
• Installing MongoDB on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Introduction to MongoDB supported features
• Creating a basic MongoDB database
• Inserting, updating, deleting and searching data from MongoDB

Managing a MongoDB database from a PHP high-level API

• Discovering the PHP Mongo API
• Connecting to a MongoDB database
• Defining collections in the database
• Inserting documents in a collection
• Finding documents from a collection
• Updating documents in a collection
• Deleting documents from a collection
• Executing queries on a MongoDB database
• Limiting a document result set with criterias

Introduction to Doctrine 2 ODM

• Discovering the Doctrine2 ODM library
• Installing Doctrine2 (Git and PEAR)
• Discovering database abstraction principles
• Opening a connection on a MongoDB database
• Introduction to the class vs collection mapping principle

Defining a data model for MongoDB documents with Doctrine 2

• Creating PHP annoted classes with DocBlock comments
• Defining a MongoDB document primary key
• Constrainting MongoDB document attributes
• Defining relations between document model classes
• Defining embedded relations between document model classes
• Defining indexes on specific MongoDB document properties

Managing document model objects with Doctrine 2

• Serializing and persisting PHP objects to MongoDB
• Deleting a document from a collection
• Detaching a MongoDB document
• Merging MongoDB documents
• Establishing references between documents
• Deleting references that link documents with each other

Querying a MongoDB database with Doctrine 2

• Finding a document with its primary key
• Finding documents according to a criteria
• Creating and querying a MongoDB documents repository
• Creating, initializing and executing custom MongoDB queries
• Sorting a result set according to a criteria
• Limiting the number of documents in a result set
• Applying arithmetics operations on a result set
• Realizing atomic updates and deletions

Storing binary files in a MongoDB database with MongoGridFS

• Discovering the MongoGridFS API
• Defining MongoDB storage classes for files to save
• Inserting a file contents in a MongoDB document object
• Finding a file with its primary key or criteria