Custom types¶

You can use custom types to accomplish the mapping of documents.

To do that you have to create a mandango type and add it to the mandango types’ container.

Creating custom types¶

A mandango type is a class that inherits from Mandango\Type\Type and implements its four abstract methods.

Let’s see an example:

namespace MyProject\Type;

use Mandango\Type\Type;

class MyType extends Type
{
    public function toMongo($value)
    {
        return (string) $value;
    }

    public function toPHP($value)
    {
        return (string) $value;
    }

    public function toMongoInString()
    {
        return '%to% = (string) %from%;';
    }

    public function toPHPInString()
    {
        return '%to% = (string) %from%;';
    }
}

Hint

Four abstract methods:

toMongo: convert a PHP value to Mongo
toPHP: convert a Mongo value to PHP
toMongoInString: convert a PHP value to Mongo in string (to generate the classes)
toPHPInString: convert a Mongo value to PHP in string (to generate the classes)

Mandango types’ container¶

Once you have the type you just have to add it to the mandango types’ container, in order to be able to use it:

use Mandango\Type\Container;

Container::addType('my_type', 'MyProject\Type\MyType');

Note

It is only necessary to do this when the classes are generated, not when they are going to be used.