<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Gets a database</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="mongoclient.dropdb.html">MongoClient::dropDB</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mongoclient.getconnections.html">MongoClient::getConnections</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.mongoclient.html">MongoClient</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="mongoclient.get" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">MongoClient::__get</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongoclient >=1.0.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoClient::__get</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets a database</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-mongoclient.get-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="class.mongodb.html" class="type MongoDB">MongoDB</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoClient::__get</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$dbname</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> This is the cleanest way of getting a database. If the database name has any special characters, <span class="function"><a href="mongoclient.selectdb.html" class="function">MongoClient::selectDB()</a></span> will need to be used; however, this should be sufficient for most cases. <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$mongo </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoClient</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// the following two lines are equivalent<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$db </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$mongo</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">selectDB</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"foo"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$db </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$mongo</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">foo</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-mongoclient.get-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"> <em><code class="parameter">dbname</code></em> </span> <dd> <p class="para"> The database name. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-mongoclient.get-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns a new db object. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-mongoclient.get-errors"> <h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3> <p class="para"> Throws a generic exception if the database name is invalid. </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="mongoclient.dropdb.html">MongoClient::dropDB</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mongoclient.getconnections.html">MongoClient::getConnections</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.mongoclient.html">MongoClient</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>