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📘 Introduction

Workshop goalsBuild a web application using Symfony and MongoDB Atlas
What you'll learnHow to integrate MongoDB Atlas with a Symfony project, basic operations with MongoDB in Symfony
PrerequisitesPHP and Symfony installed, basic knowledge of PHP, Symfony and MongoDB, a MongoDB Atlas account
Time to complete2 hours

Overview​

This workshop is designed to guide you through the process of building a web application using Symfony – a popular PHP framework, and MongoDB Atlas – a fully-managed cloud database service by MongoDB.

You'll learn how to set up a Symfony project, configure a MongoDB Atlas cluster, and perform CRUD operations using Doctrine MongoDB ODM. By the end of this workshop, you'll have a functional web application with a MongoDB backend, hosted in the cloud.

Make sure you have PHP and Symfony set up on your development machine, and sign up for a MongoDB Atlas account if you haven't already. Basic knowledge of Symfony and MongoDB will be helpful, but detailed steps will be provided throughout the workshop.

MongoDB Atlas​

MongoDB Atlas is a fully-managed cloud database service that enables you to deploy, operate, and scale a MongoDB database in the cloud. It provides a range of features including automated backups, monitoring, and security features, and is available on all major cloud providers. This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up a MongoDB Atlas cluster and connecting it to a Symfony application.

ODM (Object-Document Mapper)​

This project uses MongoDB Doctrine ODM, which is an Object-Document Mapper (ODM) for MongoDB and PHP. It provides a way to work with MongoDB in Symfony, using the same principles as Doctrine ORM for SQL databases. Its main features include:

  • Mapping of PHP objects to MongoDB documents
  • Querying MongoDB using an expressive API
  • Integration with Symfony's dependency injection and configuration system