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<h1 class="title">The MongoMinKey class</h1>
<div class="partintro"><p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo >= 1.0.2)</p>
<div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong>
<p class="para">This extension that defines this class
is deprecated. Instead, the <a href="set.mongodb.html" class="link">MongoDB</a> extension should be used.
Alternatives to this class include:</p>
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"><a href="class.mongodb-bson-minkey.html" class="classname">MongoDB\BSON\MinKey</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="mongominkey.intro">
<h2 class="title">Introduction</h2>
<p class="para">
<strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong> is an special type used by the database
that compares less than all other possible BSON values. Thus, if a query is
sorted by a given field in ascending order, any document with a
<strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong> as its value will be returned first.
</p>
<p class="para">
<strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong> has no associated fields, methods, or
constants. It is merely the "smallest" value that can be represented in the
database.
</p>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<span class="simpara">
<strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong> is used internally by MongoDB for
indexing and sharding. There is generally no reason to use this class in
an application.
</span>
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<div class="section" id="mongominkey.synopsis">
<h2 class="title">Class synopsis</h2>
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<strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong>
</span>
{</div>
}</div>
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<div class="section" id="mongominkey.example">
<h2 class="title">Using <strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong> as a value</h2>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">insert</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"task" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"lunch"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"doBy" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoMinKey</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">insert</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"task" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"staff meeting"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"doBy" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoDate</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">strtotime</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"+4 days"</span><span style="color: #007700">))));<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$cursor </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">find</span><span style="color: #007700">()-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">sort</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"doBy" </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<p class="para">
The cursor will return the lunch document followed by the staff meeting
document. The lunch document will always be returned first, regardless of
what else is added to the collection (unless other documents are added with
<strong class="classname">MongoMinKey</strong> in their "doBy" field).
</p>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"><a href="class.mongomaxkey.html" class="classname">MongoMaxKey</a></li>
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