Find with regular expression MongoDB + PHP - php

Question

I'm trying to do a PHP find over a MongoDB collection using MongoRegex, but I'm not able to make it work. The code is quite easy:
$cursor = $this->collection->find($params)
//$params has this value:
//Array
//(
// [name] => MongoRegex Object
// (
// [regex] => .*victor.*
// [flags] => i
// )
// [login] => MongoRegex Object
// (
// [regex] => .*victor.*
// [flags] => i
// )
//)
This $params array is constructed with this function:
function toRegEx($entryVars=array()){
$regexVars = array();
foreach($entryVars as $var => $value){
$regexVal = html_entity_decode($value);
$regexVars[$var] = new MongoRegex("/.*".$regexVal.".*/i");
}
return $regexVars;
}
For some reason, this query is only returning the values which makes an exact match (i.e. the documents where login or name are exactly "victor"). What I want is that the query returns all the documents where login and/or name contains the word "victor". I'm pretty sure I'm missing something basic, but I'm not being able to find it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I suppose you simply anchored the regexp to the beginning of the subject string (^), try without :
$regexVars[$var] = new MongoRegex("/".$regexVal."/i");
EDIT:
Also, if the print_r dump of the $params array above is accurate, you're probably missing a $or statement somewhere to reflect your conditions. By default, the mongodb query criteria are linked with a "and" logic, so your query will return records matching regexps on both fields only.