Laravel Session – Moving From MySQL to MongoDB

Laravel With MongoDb

Create a fresh Laravel Installation.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Setup application key

php artisan key:generate

Run application in browser

php artisan serv

Follow this for installing MongoDB.

Install composer package in Laravel

composer require jenssegers/mongodb

Add this in config/app.php

Jenssegers\Mongodb\MongodbServiceProvider::class,
Jenssegers\Mongodb\Auth\PasswordResetServiceProvider::class,

Configuration

Add this in your .env

DB_MDB_CONNECTION=mongodb
DB_MDB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_MDB_PORT=27017
DB_MDB_DATABASE=mcart
DB_MDB_USERNAME=
DB_MDB_PASSWORD=

Modify your config/database.php. Full code given below

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Database Connection Name
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may specify which of the database connections below you wish
    | to use as your default connection for all database work. Of course
    | you may use many connections at once using the Database library.
    |
    */

    'default' => env('DB_MDB_CONNECTION', 'mongodb'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Database Connections
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here are each of the database connections setup for your application.
    | Of course, examples of configuring each database platform that is
    | supported by Laravel is shown below to make development simple.
    |
    |
    | All database work in Laravel is done through the PHP PDO facilities
    | so make sure you have the driver for your particular database of
    | choice installed on your machine before you begin development.
    |
    */

    'connections' => [

        'sqlite' => [
            'driver' => 'sqlite',
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', database_path('database.sqlite')),
            'prefix' => '',
        ],

        'mysql' => [
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
            'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
            'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
            'prefix' => '',
            'strict' => true,
            'engine' => null,
        ],

        'pgsql' => [
            'driver' => 'pgsql',
            'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT', '5432'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset' => 'utf8',
            'prefix' => '',
            'schema' => 'public',
            'sslmode' => 'prefer',
        ],

        'sqlsrv' => [
            'driver' => 'sqlsrv',
            'host' => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT', '1433'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset' => 'utf8',
            'prefix' => '',
        ],
        'mongodb' => [
            'driver'   => 'mongodb',
            'host'     => env('DB_MDB_HOST', 'localhost'),
            'port'     => env('DB_MDB_PORT', 27017),
            'database' => env('DB_MDB_DATABASE'),
            'username' => env('DB_MDB_USERNAME'),
            'password' => env('DB_MDB_PASSWORD'),
            'options'  => [
                'database' => 'admin'
            ]
        ],

    ],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Migration Repository Table
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This table keeps track of all the migrations that have already run for
    | your application. Using this information, we can determine which of
    | the migrations on disk haven't actually been run in the database.
    |
    */

    'migrations' => 'migrations',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Redis Databases
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Redis is an open source, fast, and advanced key-value store that also
    | provides a richer set of commands than a typical key-value systems
    | such as APC or Memcached. Laravel makes it easy to dig right in.
    |
    */

    'redis' => [

        'client' => 'predis',

        'default' => [
            'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
            'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
            'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
            'database' => 0,
        ],

    ],

];

Install MongoDB PHP extension

sudo apt-get install php7.1-mongodb

Replace php7.1 with your version of PHP.

Create a Model

php artisan make:model Moloquent

Modify it as follows

<?php

namespace App;

use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model;

/**
 * Base Model for monogodb
 */
class Moloquent extends Model
{
}

Delete all the migrations and create following migrations

php artisan make:migration create_users_index

Open users index migration and modify code as follows

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreateUsersIndex extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('users', function ($collection) {
            $collection->index('user_id');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('users', function ($collection) {
            $collection->dropIndex('user_id');
        });
    }
}

Create another migration:

php artisan make:migration create_password_resets_index

Add following code in it

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreatePasswordResetsIndex extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('password_resets', function($collection)
        {
            $collection->index('email');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('password_resets', function ($collection) {
            $collection->dropIndex('email');
        });
    }
}

Change code of User Model as follows

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable as AuthenticableTrait;

class User extends Moloquent implements Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;
    use AuthenticableTrait;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];
}

Run Migration

php artisan migrate

Generate Laravel’s default auth

php artisan make:auth

Run the applicaton

php artisan serve

So you are ready with Laravel with MongoDB with User authentication working.