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MongoId::__toString

(PECL mongo >= 0.8.0)

MongoId::__toStringReturns a hexidecimal representation of this id

Description

public string MongoId::__toString ( void )

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

This id.

Examples

Example #1 MongoId::__toString() example

<?php
$obj 
= array( "x" => "y" );

$m = new Mongo();
$collection $m->selectDB("foo")->selectCollection("bar");

$collection->insert($obj);
$collection->insert($obj);

$cursor $collection->find();
$r1 cursor->next();
$r2 cursor->next();

echo 
$r1["_id"] . "\n";
echo 
$r2["_id"] . "\n";
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

49a7011a05c677b9a916612a
49a702d5450046d3d515d10d

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