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Make a Connection and Select a Database
To make a connection, you need to specify the database name, if the database doesn't exist then MongoDB creates it automatically.

Following is the code snippet to connect to the database −

// connect to mongodb
$m = new MongoClient();

echo "Connection to database successfully";
// select a database
$db = $m-mydb;
echo "Database mydb selected