Mongo

Minimal MongoDb for Laravel apps.

This package provides simple to use MongoDB structure and authentication, to get you started with MongoDB in Laravel in less than 10 seconds.

Installation

You can install this package by requiring it in your composer.json.

"owlgrin/mongo": "dev-master"

The add the following service provider in your app.php configuration file.

'Owlgrin\Mongo\MongoServiceProvider'

Lastly, you will have to list out your MongoDb connection credentials in your database.php configuration file. Add the connections like so:

...
'connections' => array(
	...
	'mongo' => array(
		'driver'   => 'mongo',
		'host'     => 'localhost',
		'port'     => 27017,
		'username' => 'username',
		'password' => 'password',
		'database' => 'dbname'
	)
)

To leverage the benefits of replica sets, you can describe the configuration like this:

...
'connections' => array(
	...
	'mongo' => array(
		'driver'   => 'mongo',
		'host'     => array('server1', 'server2'),
		'port'     => 27017,
		'username' => 'username',
		'password' => 'password',
		'database' => 'experiment',
		'options'  => array('replicaSet' => 'someReplicaSet')
	)
)

Usage

With this package, you can use MongoDb like this:

$user = DB::connection('mongo')
	->users
	->find(array('is_active' => 1));

If you are using MongoDb exclusively, you can set the default property in database.php configuration file to mongo, to make the usage easier, like so:

$users = DB::collection('users')->find(array('is_active' => 1));

Authentication

This package comes bundled with the authentication driver for MongoDB. To set it up, do these steps.

1. Change the driver in app/config/auth.php to 'mongo';

'driver' => 'mongo'

2. Next, add these two properties (probably next to 'table' property) in the same app/config/auth.php file.

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Authentication Collection
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When using the "Mongo" authentication driver, we need to know which
| collection should be used to retrieve your users. We have chosen a basic
| default value but you may easily change it to any table you like.
|
*/

'collection' => 'users',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Hashed or Encrypted Password
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| In some cases, you may need to store passwords encrypted as opposed to
| hashed generally. For instance, API secret keys for your users can be stored
| encrypted and not hashed, as they are to be decrypted and shown to
| users in their accounts (and storing them in plain text is a very bad idea).
| By default, we assume that the password will be hashed. If it is encrypted,
| set the following option to true.
|
*/

'encrypted_password' => false,

That's it! Now, you can authenticate your users using MongoDB. No other change is required in your whole code - it just works!

We are not sure, if we will extend the functionalities of this package. We wanted something to get started quickly. If you want something more extensive, Jens has a great package for you: https://github.com/jenssegers/Laravel-MongoDB.