<!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 collection</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="mongocollection.findone.html">MongoCollection::findOne</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mongocollection.getdbref.html">MongoCollection::getDBRef</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.mongocollection.html">MongoCollection</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="mongocollection.get" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">MongoCollection::__get</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo >=1.0.2)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoCollection::__get</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets a collection</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-mongocollection.get-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="class.mongocollection.html" class="type MongoCollection">MongoCollection</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoCollection::__get</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> A concise syntax for getting a collection with a dot-separated name. If a collection name contains strange characters, you may have to use <span class="function"><a href="mongodb.selectcollection.html" class="function">MongoDB::selectCollection()</a></span> instead. <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$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">$collection </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$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">)-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">selectCollection</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"bar.baz"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$mongo</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">foo</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">bar</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">baz</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-mongocollection.get-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"> <em><code class="parameter">name</code></em> </span> <dd> <p class="para"> The next string in the collection name. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-mongocollection.get-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the collection. </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="mongocollection.findone.html">MongoCollection::findOne</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mongocollection.getdbref.html">MongoCollection::getDBRef</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.mongocollection.html">MongoCollection</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>