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connect()

Description

connect(url, user, password)

Creates a connection to a MongoDB instance and returns the reference to the database. However, in most cases, use the Mongo() object and its getDB() method instead.

Parameter	Type	Description
url	string	Specifies the connection string. You can specify either: <hostname>:<port>/<database> <hostname>/<database> <database>
user	string	Optional. Specifies an existing username with access privileges for this database. If user is specified, you must include the password parameter as well.
password	string	Optional unless the user parameter is specified. Specifies the password for the user.

Example

The following example instantiates a new connection to the MongoDB instance running on the localhost interface and returns a reference to myDatabase:

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db = connect("localhost:27017/myDatabase")

See also

Mongo(), Mongo.getDB(), db.auth()

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