How to make “LIKE” query work in MongoDB?

Question

I have a list of street names and I want to select all that start with \"Al\". In my MySQL I would do something like

SELECT * FROM streets WHERE \"street_nam         


        

Answer 1

here is my working example:

yourDatabase->yourCollection;
$regex = new Regex($text, 's');
$where = ['your_field_for_search' => $regex];
$cursor = $collection->find($where);
//Lets iterate through collection