PHP Libraries, Frameworks, and Tools

The PHP community has created a huge number of libraries to make working with MongoDB easier and integrate it with existing frameworks.

Libraries and Frameworks

CakePHP

• MongoDB datasource for CakePHP. There's also an introductory blog post on using it with Mongo.

Codeigniter

• MongoDB-Codeigniter-Driver

Doctrine

ODM (Object Document Mapper) is an experimental Doctrine MongoDB object mapper. The Doctrine\ODM\Mongo namespace is an experimental project for a PHP 5.3 MongoDB Object Mapper. It allows you to easily write PHP 5 classes and map them to collections in MongoDB. You just work with your objects like normal and Doctrine will transparently persist them to Mongo.

This project implements the same "style" of the Doctrine 2 ORM project interface so it will look very familiar to you and it has lots of the same features and implementations.

• Documentation - API, Reference, and Cookbook
• Official blog post
• Screencast
• Blog post on using it with Symfony
• Bug tracker

Drupal

• MongoDB Integration - Views (query builder) backend, a watchdog implementation (logging), and field storage.

Fat-Free Framework

Fat-Free is a powerful yet lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web development framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust applications - fast!

Kohana Framework

• Mango at github
  An ActiveRecord-like library for PHP, for the Kohana PHP Framework.
  See also PHP Language Center#MongoDb PHP ODM further down.

Lithium

Lithium supports Mongo out-of-the-box.

• Tutorial on creating a blog backend.

Symfony 2

• Symfony 2 Logger
  A centralized logger for Symfony applications. See the blog post.

• sfMongoSessionStorage - manages session storage via MongoDB with symfony.

• sfStoragePerformancePlugin - This plugin contains some extra storage engines (MongoDB and Memcached) that are currently missing from the Symfony (>= 1.2) core.

TechMVC

An extensive MVC 2 based PHP framework which supports MongoDB directly with only PHPMongo extension. Hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/techmvc/ and demo example available at http://demo.techmvc.techunits.com/.

Vork

Vork, the high-performance enterprise framework for PHP natively supports MongoDB as either a primary datasource or used in conjunction with an RDBMS. Designed for scalability & Green-IT, Vork serves more traffic with fewer servers and can be configured to operate without any disk-IO.

Vork provides a full MVC stack that outputs semantically-correct XHTML 1.1, complies with Section 508 Accessibility guidelines & Zend-Framework coding-standards, has SEO-friendly URLs, employs CSS-reset for cross-browser display consistency and is written in well-documented object-oriented E_STRICT PHP5 code.

An extensive set of tools are built into Vork for ecommerce (cc-processing, SSL, PayPal, AdSense, shipment tracking, QR-codes), Google Maps, translation & internationalization, Wiki, Amazon Web Services, Social-Networking (Twitter, Meetup, ShareThis, YouTube, Flickr) and much more.

Yii

• YiiMongoDbSuite is an almost complete, ActiveRecord like support for MongoDB in Yii It originally started as a fork of MongoRecord extension written by tyohan, to fix some major bugs, and add full featured suite for MongoDB developers.

Zend Framework

• Shanty Mongo is a prototype mongodb adapter for the Zend Framework. It's intention is to make working with mongodb documents as natural and as simple as possible. In particular allowing embeded documents to also have custom document classes.

• ZF Cache Backend
  A ZF Cache Backend for MongoDB. It support tags and auto-cleaning.

• There is a Zend_Nosql_Mongo component proposal.

Stand-Alone Tools

ActiveMongo

ActiveMongo is a really simple ActiveRecord for MongoDB in PHP.

There's a nice introduction to get you started at http://crodas.org/activemongo.php.

MapReduce API

A MapReduce abstraction layer. See the blog post.

• MongoDB-MapReduce-PHP at github

Mongofilesystem

Filesystem based on MongoDB GridFS. Mongofilesystem will help you use MongoDB GridFS like a typical filesystem, using the familiar PHP commands.

Mandango

Mandango is a simple, poweful and ultrafast Object Document Mapper (ODM) for PHP and MongoDB..

MongoDB Pagination

PHP MongoDB Pagination is the pagination plugin for MongoDB released under MIT License. Simple to install & use. It has been developed under TechMVC 3.0.4, but it's compatible with any 3rd party framework (e.g. Zend (tested)).

MongoDb PHP ODM

MongoDb PHP ODM is a simple object wrapper for the Mongo PHP driver classes which makes using Mongo in your PHP application more like ORM, but without the suck. It is designed for use with Kohana 3 but will also integrate easily with any PHP application with almost no additional effort.

Mongodloid

A nice library on top of the PHP driver that allows you to make more natural queries ($query->query('a == 13 AND b >= 8 && c % 3 == 4');), abstracts away annoying $-syntax, and provides getters and setters.

• Project Page
• Downloads
• Documentation

MongoQueue

MongoQueue is a PHP queue that allows for moving tasks and jobs into an asynchronous process for completion in the background. The queue is managed by Mongo

MongoQueue is an extraction from online classifieds site Oodle. Oodle uses MongoQueue to background common tasks in order to keep page response times low.

MongoRecord

MongoRecord is a PHP Mongo ORM layer built on top of the PHP Mongo PECL extension

MongoRecord is an extraction from online classifieds site Oodle. Oodle’s requirements for a manageable, easy to understand interface for dealing with the super-scalable Mongo datastore was the primary reason for MongoRecord. It was developed to use with PHP applications looking to add Mongo’s scaling capabilities while dealing with a nice abstraction layer.

Morph

A high level PHP library for MongoDB. Morph comprises a suite of objects and object primitives that are designed to make working with MongoDB in PHP a breeze.

• Morph at github

simplemongophp

Very simple layer for using data objects see blog post

• simplemongophp at github

Blogs & HOWTOs

How to batch import JSON data output from FFprobe for motion stream analysis

FFprobe is a stream analyzer that optionally reports in JSON. This example is a PHP script that reads JSON from STDIN, makes an object using json_decode, and inserts the object into a MongDB database. This script could be used with any program that outputs a JSON stream. A bash script will be used to batch process all files within the current directory. For example, the data may be used for analysis and logging of a day's shoot.

• Batch import Multimedia Stream Data into MongoDB with FFprobe web site
• Code and Sample Output at github