Question

I have a function that updates fine with a single dimensional array, but with a multidimensional array (or nested array) it will not update. the document data, the BSONfield (acts as the find key), and the collection are imputed. Any Idea what i am doing wrong?

Public Static function updateDocument($collection, $BSONfield, $document){
    $dbcollection = $db->selectCollection($collection);
    $sdata = $document[$BSONfield];
    $secureInnerDocument = array();
            $secureDocument = array();
    if($BSONfield == "_id"){
        $sdata = new MongoID($sdata);
        unset($document["_id"]);
    }
    $filter = array($BSONfield=>$sdata);
    foreach ($document as $k => $v) {   
        if (is_array($v)) {
            foreach ($v as $sk => $sv) {
                $secureInnerDocument[$sk] = Security::secureQuery($sv);
            }
                $secureDocument[$k] = $secureInnerDocument;
        }else{      
            $secureDocument[$k] = Security::secureQuery($v);
        }
    }
    $dbcollection->update($filter,array('$set'=>$secureDocument));
    $objid = (string) $secureDocument['_id'];
    return $objid;
}

Answer 1

It translates fairly directly:

db.collection.update(
   {fieldNameFilter:'filterValue'}, 
   {$set: {'stringFieldName' : 'newValue'}}
);

Translates to:

$collection->update(
   array('fieldNameFilter'=>'filterValue'), 
   array($set => array('stringFieldName'=>$value))
);

Then there are some flags for multi-row updates, etc. which I’m not showing here, but which are in the PHP and Mongo docs.

You might also want to look at: MongoDB – help with a PHP query