# MongoDB\BSON\toPHP

(mongodb >=1.0.0)

MongoDB\BSON\toPHP — Returns the PHP representation of a BSON value

### Description

MongoDB\BSON\toPHP ( string `$bson` [, array `$typeMap` = array() ] ) : array|object

Unserializes a BSON document (i.e. binary string) to its PHP representation. The `typeMap` paramater may be used to control the PHP types used for converting BSON arrays and documents (both root and embedded).

Warning

Fields containing deprecated BSON types (i.e. undefined, symbol, DBPointer) are represented only by bare-bones objects of the classes MongoDB\BSON\Undefined, MongoDB\BSON\Symbol, and MongoDB\BSON\DBPointer, when converting BSON to PHP. These objects are created from BSON data and used for storing these types back into the database, but can not be instantiated as they have a private constructor.

### Parameters

`bson` (string)

  BSON value to be unserialized.

`typeMap` (array)

  Type map configuration.

### Return Values

The unserialized PHP value.

### Errors/Exceptions

- Throws MongoDB\Driver\Exception\InvalidArgumentException if a class in the type map cannot be instantiated or does not implement MongoDB\BSON\Unserializable.
- Throws MongoDB\Driver\Exception\UnexpectedValueException if the input did not contain exactly one BSON document. Possible reasons include, but are not limited to, invalid BSON, extra data (after reading one BSON document), or an unexpected » libbson error.

### Changelog

Version | Description
--- | ---
PECL mongodb 1.4.0 | If the input contains an unsupported, deprecated BSON type, the driver will now no longer log a warning to the debug log, but instead will create an object representing this type.
PECL mongodb 1.3.2 | MongoDB\Driver\Exception\UnexpectedValueException is no longer thrown if the input contains an unsupported, deprecated BSON type. Such types will be ignored (as they were in versions before 1.3.0), although the driver will now log a warning to the debug log (see: mongodb.debug).
PECL mongodb 1.3.0 | MongoDB\Driver\Exception\UnexpectedValueException is thrown if the input contains an unsupported, deprecated BSON type. Previously, such types were ignored.

### Examples

Example #1 MongoDB\BSON\toPHP() example

`<?php
$bson = hex2bin('0e00000010666f6f000100000000');
$value = MongoDB\BSON\toPHP($bson);
var_dump($value);
?>`

The above example will output:

    object(stdClass)#1 (1) {
      ["foo"]=>
      int(1)
    }

### See Also

- MongoDB\BSON\fromPHP() - Returns the BSON representation of a PHP value
- » MongoDB BSON
- Persisting Data