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Getting Started With MongoDB GridFS

22 Nov, 2010 in GridFS, PHP by

TweetOne really useful built-in feature of MongoDB is it’s GridFS. This filesystem within MongoDB was designed for … well, holding files, especially files over 4MB … why 4MB? Well BSON objects are limited to 4MB in size (BSON is the format that MongoDB uses to store it’s database information) so GridFS helps store files across [...]

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Twitter 101: Store Tweets with MongoDB

20 Oct, 2010 in Drivers, PHP, Twitter by

TweetTwitter has been changing their API and features so quickly that even planning out a structure to store tweets can be quite difficult. Luckily (compared to other, relational DB’s) MongoDB makes that much less of a problem with its schema-less documents. To start things off let’s a get a few prerequisites checked off our list … [...]

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MongoDB and 64-bit Integers in PHP

4 Oct, 2010 in PHP, Twitter by

TweetIf you’ve ever needed to work with PHP’s MongoDB driver and large integers (which Twitter and Facebook use for id’s) you might have run into a problem … Derick Rethans documents this problem at length at his post here … [A] Facebook UserID … [uses] a “64-bit int datatype”. Unfortunately, the MongoDB PHP Driver only had support for 32-bit [...]

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MongoDB+PHP: Install and Connect

25 Aug, 2010 in PHP by

TweetThis is Part 1 of a series of short posts on how to use MongoDB with PHP. Installing MongoDB support for PHP is really easy!  Here’s a short howto guide for installing MongoDB for PHP and preforming a simple query. Install MongoDB for PHP Support Unix/Linux Via your command line run pecl: $ sudo pecl install mongo [...]

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