PHP and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide

Combine the power of PHP and MongoDB to build dynamic web 2.0 applications

Key Features

• 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

Book Description

What you will learn

• Get MongoDB up and running on the machine (Windows/Mac/Linux)
• Build a PHP-powered website with MongoDB as the data storage
• Handle HTTP sessions with MongoDB
• Store website analytics data in real time
• Process large datasets with MapReduce
• Use MongoDB to supplement your existing relational database‚Äì build data archives, cache tiers, store results of expensive SQL queries in MongoDB
• Build location-aware web applications
• Optimize MongoDB for better performance and security

Who this book is for

This book assumes that you are experienced in web application development using PHP, HTML, and CSS. Having working knowledge of using a relational database system such as MySQL will help you grasp some of the concepts quicker, but it is not strictly mandatory. No prior knowledge of MongoDB is required.