<!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.selectcollection.html">MongoClient::selectCollection</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mongoclient.setreadpreference.html">MongoClient::setReadPreference</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.selectdb" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">MongoClient::selectDB</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo >=1.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoClient::selectDB</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets a database</span></p> </div> <div id="mongoclient.selectdb-soft-deprecation-notice" class="soft-deprecation-notice"> <p class="para">This extension that defines this method is deprecated. Instead, the <a href="set.mongodb.html" class="link">MongoDB</a> extension should be used. There is no equivalent for this method in the new extension, but there is an alternative in the <a href="mongodb.overview.html" class="link">PHP library</a>:</p> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"><a href="https://docs.mongodb.com/php-library/master/reference/method/MongoDBClient-selectDatabase/" class="link external">» MongoDB\Client::selectDatabase()</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-mongoclient.selectdb-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::selectDB</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span> )</div> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-mongoclient.selectdb-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <code class="parameter">name</code> </dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The database name. </p> </dd> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-mongoclient.selectdb-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns a new database object. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-mongoclient.selectdb-errors"> <h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3> <p class="para"> Throws <a href="class.exception.html" class="classname">Exception</a> 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.selectcollection.html">MongoClient::selectCollection</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mongoclient.setreadpreference.html">MongoClient::setReadPreference</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>