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| 1 | +.. _php-client: |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +======================= |
| 4 | +Create a MongoDB Client |
| 5 | +======================= |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +.. facet:: |
| 8 | + :name: genre |
| 9 | + :values: reference |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +.. meta:: |
| 12 | + :keywords: connection string, URI, server, Atlas, settings |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +.. contents:: On this page |
| 15 | + :local: |
| 16 | + :backlinks: none |
| 17 | + :depth: 2 |
| 18 | + :class: singlecol |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Overview |
| 21 | +-------- |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +To connect to a MongoDB deployment, you must create the following items: |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +- **Connection URI**, also known as a *connection string*, which tells the {+driver-short+} |
| 26 | + which MongoDB deployment to connect to. |
| 27 | +- **MongoDB\\Client** object, which creates the connection to the MongoDB deployment |
| 28 | + and lets you perform operations on it. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +You can also set options within either or both of these components to |
| 31 | +customize the way that the {+driver-short+} behaves |
| 32 | +while connected to MongoDB. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +This guide describes the components of a connection string and shows how to |
| 35 | +use a ``MongoDB\Client`` object to connect to a MongoDB deployment. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +.. _php-connection-uri: |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Connection URI |
| 40 | +-------------- |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +A standard connection string includes the following components: |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +.. list-table:: |
| 45 | + :widths: 20 80 |
| 46 | + :header-rows: 1 |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | + * - Component |
| 49 | + - Description |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | + * - ``mongodb://`` |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | + - Required. A prefix that identifies this as a string in the |
| 54 | + standard connection format. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + * - ``db_username:db_password`` |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | + - Optional. Authentication credentials. If you include these, the client |
| 59 | + authenticates the user against the database specified in ``authSource``. |
| 60 | + For more information about the ``authSource`` connection option, see |
| 61 | + :ref:`php-auth`. |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + * - ``host[:port]`` |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + - Required. The host and optional port number where MongoDB is running. If you don't |
| 66 | + include the port number, the driver uses the default port, ``27017``. |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | + * - ``/defaultauthdb`` |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | + - Optional. The authentication database to use if the |
| 71 | + connection string includes ``db_username:db_password@`` |
| 72 | + authentication credentials but not the ``authSource`` option. If you don't include |
| 73 | + this component, the client authenticates the user against the ``admin`` database. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | + * - ``?<options>`` |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | + - Optional. A query string that specifies connection-specific |
| 78 | + options as ``<name>=<value>`` pairs. See |
| 79 | + :ref:`php-connection-options` for a full description of |
| 80 | + these options. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +To learn more about connection strings, see |
| 83 | +:manual:`Connection Strings </reference/connection-string>` in the |
| 84 | +Server manual. |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +Create a MongoDB\Client |
| 87 | +----------------------- |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +To create a connection to MongoDB, pass your connection string when constructing |
| 90 | +an instance of the ``MongoDB\Client`` class. |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +In the following example, the library uses a sample connection URI to connect to a MongoDB |
| 93 | +deployment on port ``27017`` of ``localhost``: |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +.. literalinclude:: /includes/connect/client.php |
| 96 | + :language: php |
| 97 | + :copyable: true |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +API Documentation |
| 100 | +----------------- |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +To learn more about creating a ``MongoDB\Client`` object in the {+driver-short+}, |
| 103 | +see the following API documentation: |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +- :ref:`MongoDB\Client <php-api-mongodbclient>` |
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