1. PHP, Lithium, and
MongoDB
Mitch Pirtle
MongoBoston - September 20, 2010
Boston, MA

2. One thing real quick.

3. Microsoft NERD, right?
There’ll be no talk of
convergence or
paradigm shifts here
There will be code
COFFEE!

4. About the speaker
Nothing but web since 1995
Contributor to many FOSS projects (Joomla! founder)
Budding author
MongoDB for Web Development
Extreme Joomla! Performance
High-traffic projects (Jetsetter, MTV, Food Networks)
Husband, dad, skate punk, metalcore bassist, coach

5. What is MongoDB?
Document database
Wicked fast speed
Encourages simple code, fewer bugs
Great for scale

6. What is Lithium?
web - http://lithify.me
irc - #li3 on freenode.net
http://www.slideshare.net/nateabele/lithium-the-
framework-for-people-who-hate-frameworks
Projects demonstrating MongoDB support:
http://rad-dev.org/lithium_mongo
http://rad-dev.org/lithium_blog

7. Ok, what exactly is it?

8. Ok, what exactly is it?
Requires PHP 5.3+

9. Ok, what exactly is it?
Requires PHP 5.3+
Promiscuously opinionated framework

10. Ok, what exactly is it?
Requires PHP 5.3+
Promiscuously opinionated framework
MVC, but pragmatic - not dogmatic

11. Ok, what exactly is it?
Requires PHP 5.3+
Promiscuously opinionated framework
MVC, but pragmatic - not dogmatic
Wicked, whack-daddy fast

12. Ok, what exactly is it?
Requires PHP 5.3+
Promiscuously opinionated framework
MVC, but pragmatic - not dogmatic
Wicked, whack-daddy fast
Pretty much everything is a plugin

13. Ok, what exactly is it?
Requires PHP 5.3+
Promiscuously opinionated framework
MVC, but pragmatic - not dogmatic
Wicked, whack-daddy fast
Pretty much everything is a plugin
Provides test harness, and much more

14. Benefit: Environments
Separate configuration
Better integration
Better workflow for
development

15. Benefit: Connections
Uses environments
Multiple database
types
Multiple database
connections
Yes, these are
concurrent

16. Benefit: Collections
Specifically for
document databases
Embedded data/lists
No schema definition
required

17. Benefit: Plugins
Everything is a plugin
Even Lithium is a plugin

18. Benefit: Filters
Lithium takes
advantage of, and
encourages the use of
filters
http://php.net/manual/
en/book.filter.php

19. Is it fully baked?
Nearing 1.0 release
Model constraints (belongs to, has many, etc.) are
being finished as you watch this talk
Some generators, scaffolds under construction

20. Why Lithium + MongoDB?
You don’t have to define the schema in your models.
Read that first one again.
Lithium does not force relational practices on your data.
Namespaces, chaining, filters, closures...

21. Some light reading
To help you get your groove on

22. http://lithify.me/
Your handy dandy starting place of all starting
places

23. http://rad-dev.org/lithium/
The official project home of Lithium

24. http://rad-dev.org/projects
Additional sundry Lithium-based projects

25. The Quintessential Blog Tute
http://rad-dev.org/lithium/wiki/drafts/blog-tutorial

26. PHP Filters Reference
http://us3.php.net/filters

27. Enough talking, show us
some code!

28. ‘Scuse me
While I whip this out...

29. Stump the Speaker™

30. Thanks!
Email: spacemonkey@mongodb.org
Skype: mitch.pirtle
Web: http://www.spacemonkeylabs.com
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/
spacemonkeylabs

31. Image credits
Nerdy Bush: http://www.freakingnews.com/Nerd-
George-Bush-Pictures-38786.asp
Reading glasses: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/89159