Reference Mapping

References are relations to other documents. MongoDB doesn’t allow joins or foreign keys, nut you can save references to other documents and later consult them. Mandango allows you to do this very easily.

You just have to indicate the name of the reference and the document class you want to reference.

There are two types of references, which vary in the number of documents that are going to be referenced.

References One

array(
    'Model\Author' => array(
        'fields' => array(
            'name' => 'string',
        ),
    ),
    'Model\Article' => array(
        // to one
        'referencesOne' => array(
            'author' => array('class' => 'Model\Author'),
        ),
    ),
);

Note

You must indicate the full class.

References Many

array(
    'Model\Category' => array(
        'fields' => array(
            'name' => 'string',
        ),
    ),
    'Model\Article' => array(
        // to many
        'referencesMany' => array(
            'categories' => array('class' => 'Model\Category'),
        ),
    ),
);