Next Generation MongoDB Driver for PHP!
For the past few months I've been working on a "next-gen" MongoDB driver for PHP -- codename " phongo ". The aim was to build a new PHP extension ontop of the mongoc and libbson libraries to reduce maintenance of the extension itself and focus more on providing the ecosystem with improved support and libraries. The new driver is available on PECL (called "mongodb", surprisingly enough) . It doesn't include any of the bells and whistles found in the previous "mongo" driver. It doesn't include any `group` or `count` command helpers, and you won't find any Collection or Database objects; however, it really doesn't need any of these things. All it has is simplicity. You can execute a command of your choosing. You can execute a query . You can execute a write . That's really it (as with everything, there are certain exceptions). Oh, it is also very, very fast. What's the Point? Most developers interact with datab...