Yii Gii with MongoDB

Question

Could anyone please tell me how MongoDB can be used with YII?

How can we create controller and model functions using Gii if the database used is MongoDB?

Answer 1

The way of creating controllers is same as usual but you have to use an extension to talk to mongoDB from Yii ,

You need to use direct Mongo suite of yii . It is an extension which has a collection of components for the mongoDB .

Answer 2

I've used YiiMongoDBSuite (YMDS), which has some very rough support for Gii. You can generate starter classes, but given that MongoDB does not have a fixed schema you will need to edit the model to make them useful. There is an odd kludge that lets you generate MongoDB models from a SQL table, but this seems more effort than it's worth.

YMDS' EMongoDocument class extends the standard Yii CModel class, so this is a useful base if you want to build apps with CRUDS.

The unfortunate caveat is that YMDS is no longer maintained by the original author, and there are a few community forks to chose between.