PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide

Combine the power of PHP and MongoDB to build dynamic web 2.0 applications Learn to build PHP-powered dynamic web applications using MongoDB as the data backend Handle user sessions, store real-time site analytics, build location-aware web apps, and much more, all using MongoDB and PHP Full of step-by-step instructions and practical examples, along with challenges to test and improve your knowledge In Detail With the rise of Web 2.0, the need for a highly scalable database, capable of storing

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Mason Jones

January 19, 2014

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

A useful book for those getting started with MongoDB, January 23, 2012

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Mason Jones (San Francisco, CA United States) –

This review is from: PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide (Paperback)

I recently was provided with an eBook review copy of PHP and MongoDB Web Development from Packt Publishing, by Rubayeet Islam. Being interested in MongoDB, though a bit out of date with my PHP development, I read through the book fairly quickly.

As the title indicates, the author focuses on using MongoDB to provide the storage back-end for PHP web applications. After a short introduction to the basic concepts behind MongoDB, we get a walk-through of installing MongoDB and getting PHP to talk with it, before starting in on building a blog. It’s a safe example, since a blog is a reasonable candidate for a document store like MongoDB. It also provides a way to address one of the big design questions when using MongoDB, which is when to use embedded documents and when to store references. To my mind the question is glossed over a bit too quickly, but it is discussed.

Additional projects like session management and geolocation get a bit off-track, as a lot of time is spent describing the concepts rather than MongoDB, but the meatier sections that get into topics like Map-Reduce (creating a tag cloud) and web analytics are certainly worthwhile. I did feel that the chapter reviewing two MongoDB management tools could have been skipped, since the information will likely be out of date within a couple of months.

Overall, this is a reasonable beginner’s guide, as its subtitle indicates. There’s a great deal of PHP code filling its pages, which will give you a starting point if you need a boost to get going. Reading through it will give you the basics about MongoDB, and a bit more — hints on indexing, optimizing, and Map-Reduce will keep you running. A lot of the information felt cursory, and I would have appreciated more depth, but that’s probably just me wanting more than a beginner’s introduction. Perhaps more relevant were my concerns about the copy-editing and grammar. I didn’t notice any actual errors, but the grammar is quite rough and it made me wonder. It may make me old-fashioned these days, but I still expect my books to be well-edited and grammatically correct. The issue didn’t get directly in the way of the information to be had, but it’s still a pity. Nonetheless, if you’re a PHP developer and you’re looking to get started with MongoDB, you’ll doubtless find this a useful book.

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Richard Scheipe

January 19, 2014

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

some good info but supplied code is buggy, July 28, 2013

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Richard Scheipe (Southern New Jersey) –

This review is from: PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide (Paperback)

On the surface this seemed like a good way to learn how to use php to program apps against mongodb. It has some good information but I am spending hours trying to fix the author’s php errors…
beware of that.

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Joe

January 19, 2014

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Great Web 2.0 Developer book for MongoDB and PHP!, February 29, 2012

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Joe (Brooklyn, NY) –

This review is from: PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner’s Guide (Paperback)

I found this book to be very informative for someone who is interested in MongoDB and wants to learn the type of database architecture MongoDB supports. This book has a web-centric view where it shows step-by-step examples that anyone can follow. Every chapter has a review of what is covered in the chapter, and plenty of examples to illustrate the author’s points.

My take on this subject is from the Database Administrator point of view, and here I found the book to be a little light on substance, but this book is clearly not marketed to that segment but to developers. Some of the advanced topics covered in this book are MapReduce, GridFS and Geospatial location and on these topics this book excels.

This book would be a fine addition to any bookshelf and will have a special place in mine. It clearly shows the power of MongoDB and PHP in a Web 2.0 environment and would be a great reference to anyone in Web development.

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