In order to use ArangoDB, you need to specify the connection options. We do so by creating a PHP array $connectionOptions. Put this code into a file named test.php in your current directory:

* fail with a conflict error: if you prefer that, set OPTION_UPDATE_POLICY to conflict

By default the PHP client will connect to a single endpoint only,

*This is just to show how a collection is created.*

*For these examples it is not needed to create a collection prior to inserting a document, as we set ArangoConnectionOptions::OPTION_CREATE to true.*

So, after we get the settings, we can start with creating a collection. We will create a collection named "users".

var_dump($result);

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After we created the collection, we can start with creating an initial document. We will create a user document in a collection named "users". This collection does not need to exist yet. The first document we'll insert in this collection will create the collection on the fly. This is because we have set OPTION_CREATE to true in $connectionOptions.

As you can see, sending a document to the server is achieved by calling the save() method on the client library's *DocumentHandler* class. It needs the collection name ("users" in this case") plus the document object to be saved. save() will return the document id as created by the server. The id is a numeric value that might or might not fit in a PHP integer.

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To retrieve a document from the server, the get() method of the *DocumentHandler* class can be used. It needs the collection name plus a document id. There is also the getById() method which is an alias for get().

This will return all documents from the specified collection (here: "users") with the properties provided in the example (here: that have an attribute "name" with a value of "John"). The result is a cursor which can be iterated sequentially or completely. We have chosen to get the complete result set above by calling the cursor's getAll() method.

Note that CollectionHandler->byExample() might return multiple documents if the example is ambigious.

To remove an existing document on the server, the remove() method of the *DocumentHandler* class will do. remove() just needs the document to be removed as a parameter:

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See file examples/customDocumentClass.php for more details.

ArangoException::disableLogging();

Here's the full code that combines all the pieces outlined above:

* More example code, containing some code to create, delete and rename collections, is provided in the **examples** subdirectory that is provided with the library.