ci-mongodb-base-model: A PHP repository from m7moud

#CodeIgniter MongoDB Base Model CodeIgniter base model with optional MongoDB support.

It's based on the work of Jamie Rumbelow's CRUD model

##Synopsis

class Post_model extends Base_Model {

    // Indicates that model persists in MongoDB
    protected $_mongodb = TRUE;
    
    // Indicates collection/table name (optional)
    protected $_datasource = 'posts';

    // If using MongoDB, this indicates the collection
    // field schema to help preventing SQL-like and Null-byte
    // injection attacks. It also set default values.
    protected $_fields = array(
        'title'  => 'No title set',
        'status' => 'open',
        'body'   => '',
        // Keys other than these ones are not allowed to be inserted.
    );
    
    // Validation rules
    protected $validate = array(
        array(
            'field' => 'title',
            'label' => 'post title',
            'rules' => 'trim|min_length[3]|max_length[255]|xss_clean|callback_custom_rule',
        ),
    );
}

// Load model
$this->load->model('post_model', 'post');

// Get all records/documents
$posts = $this->post->get_all();

// Get a document by its '_id' value
$this->post->get('4fc6a54197ab4f194caa4a77');

// Get a record/document by its 'title' value
$this->post->get_by('title', 'Pigs CAN Fly!');

// Get all records/documents by their 'status' value
$this->post->get_many_by('status', 'open');

// Insert a new record/document
$this->post->insert(array(
    'status' => 'open',
    'title' => "I'm too sexy for my shirt"
));

// Update a record
$this->post->update(1, array( 'status' => 'closed' ));

// Delete a document
$this->post->delete('4fc6a54197ab4f194caa4a77');

##Requirements CodeIgniter MongoDB Active Record Library

##Installation

Move MY_Model.php file into your application/core folder.
Alter your models to extend Base_Model instead of CI_Model class.

##Naming Conventions This class will try to guess the name of the table ot collection to use, by guessing the plural of the model class name. If the table or collection name isn't the plural and you need to set it to something else, just declare the $_datasource instance variable and set it to the table or collection name. Some of the CRUD functions also assume that your primary key ID column is called id. You can overwrite this functionality by setting the $primary_key instance variable. It's forced to _id when using MongoDB.

##Callbacks There are many times when you'll need to alter your model data before it's inserted or returned. This could be adding timestamps, pulling in relationships or deleting dependent rows. The MVC pattern states that these sorts of operations need to go in the model. In order to facilitate this, Base_Model contains a series of callbacks -- methods that will be called at certain points.

The full list of callbacks are as follows:

$before_create
$after_create
$before_update
$after_update
$before_get
$after_get
$before_delete
$after_delete

These are instance variables usually defined at the class level. They are arrays of methods on this class to be called at certain points. An example:

class Book_model extends Base_Model
{
    public $before_create = array( 'timestamps' );

    protected function timestamps($book)
    {
        $book['created_at'] = $book['updated_at'] = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        return $book;
    }
}

##Validation This class also includes some excellent validation support. This uses the built-in Form Validation library and provides a wrapper around it to make validation automatic on insert. To enable, set the $validate instance variable to the rules array that you would pass into $this->form_validation->set_rules(). To find out more about the rules array, please view the library's documentation.

Then, for each call to insert(), the data passed through will be validated according to the $validate rules array. Unlike the CodeIgniter validation library, this won't validate the POST data, rather, it validates the data passed directly through.

If for some reason you'd like to skip the validation, you can call skip_validation() before the call to insert() and validation won't be performed on the data for that single call.

##Arrays vs Objects By default, Base_Model is setup to return objects. If you'd like to use their array counterparts, there are a couple of ways of customising the model.

If you'd like all your calls to use the array methods, you can set the $return_type variable to array.

class Book_model extends Base_Model
{
    protected $return_type = 'array';
}

If you'd like just your next call to return a specific type, there are two scoping methods you can use:

$this->book_model->as_array()
                 ->get(1);
$this->book_model->as_object()
                 ->get_by('column', 'value');

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