MongoDB Extension for Yii 2

1. Requirements
2. Installation
3. Configuration
4. Known issues

This extension provides the MongoDB integration for the Yii framework 2.0.

For license information check the LICENSE-file.

Documentation is at docs/guide/README.md.

Requirements ¶

This extension requires MongoDB PHP Extension version 1.20.1 or higher.

This extension requires MongoDB server version 4.0 or higher.

Installation ¶

[!IMPORTANT]

• The minimum required PHP version is PHP 7.4.
• It works best with PHP 8.

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-mongodb

or add

"yiisoft/yii2-mongodb": "~3.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json.

Configuration ¶

To use this extension, simply add the following code in your application configuration:

return [
    //....
    'components' => [
        'mongodb' => [
            'class' => '\yii\mongodb\Connection',
            'dsn' => 'mongodb://localhost:27017/mydatabase',
            'options' => [
                "username" => "Username",
                "password" => "Password"
            ]
        ],
    ],
];

Known issues ¶

• yii\mongodb\Exception: no such command: 'group' with MongoDB server version 4.2 or higher.
  Starting in version 4.2, MongoDB removes the group command (deprecated since version 3.4) and its mongo shell helper db.collection.group().