mongo db - can't get right syntax to sort documents by a specific field

Question

I have the following php code that works:

            global $m, $db;

            $collection = $db->locations;

            try{

                    $cursor = $collection->find();

                    return $cursor;

            } catch(MongoCursorException $e) {

                    return false;

            }

Now I'd like to sort the results in ascending order by a field called "name".

This is what I've tried:

            global $m, $db;

            $collection = $db->locations;

            try{

                    $cursor = $collection->find().sort({name:1});

                    return $cursor;

            } catch(MongoCursorException $e) {

                    return false;

            }

But I'm getting an error that says:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /var/www/html/myapp/models/locations_model.php on line 23

Any tips?

Answer 1

Try

$cursor = $collection->find()->sort(['name' => 1]);

Your error is because you are not sending an array to the sort, which it expects, see PHP mongocursor sort

mongo db - can't get right syntax to sort documents by a specific field

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