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<refentry xml:id="function.mongodb.bson-fromphp" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>MongoDB\BSON\fromPHP</refname>
  <refpurpose>Returns the BSON representation of a PHP value</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>

 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>string</type><methodname>MongoDB\BSON\fromPHP</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>array|object</type><parameter>value</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Serializes a PHP array or object (e.g. document) to its
   <link xlink:href="&url.mongodb.docs.bson;">BSON</link> representation. The
   returned binary string will describe a BSON document.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <variablelist>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><parameter>value</parameter> (<type>array|object</type>)</term>
    <listitem>
     <para>
      PHP value to be serialized.
     </para>
    </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   The serialized BSON document as a binary string.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="errors">
  &reftitle.errors;
  <para>
   Throws
   <classname>MongoDB\Driver\Exception\UnexpectedValueException</classname> if
   the PHP value cannot be converted to BSON. Possible reasons include, but are
   not limited to, encountering an unexpected
   <classname>MongoDB\BSON\Type</classname> instance or
   <function>MongoDB\BSON\Serializable::bsonSerialize</function> failing to
   return an <type>array</type> or <classname>stdClass</classname>.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <example>
   <title><function>MongoDB\BSON\fromPHP</function> example</title>
   <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php

$bson = MongoDB\BSON\fromPHP(['foo' => 1]);
echo bin2hex($bson), "\n";

?>
]]>
   </programlisting>
   &example.outputs;
   <screen>
<![CDATA[
0e00000010666f6f000100000000cat 
]]>
   </screen>
  </example>
 </refsect1>


 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <simplelist>
   <member><function>MongoDB\BSON\toPHP</function></member>
   <member><link xlink:href="&url.mongodb.docs.bson;">MongoDB BSON</link></member>
   <member><xref linkend="mongodb.persistence"/></member>
  </simplelist>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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