How can I make PHP inserts/update safe by default?

[Arkadiy]

We've recently suffered from some missing data due to (I suspect) master switchover during inserts. How can I avoid this without writing array(safe=> true) in every single insert/update?

Basically I want connection-level safe => true default that I can occasionally override with safe => false for throughput-oriented data.

Unfortunately, it looks like the php drives doesn't support the ?safe=1 syntax ("argument 27017?safe=1 isn't numeric") and setting w=1 at connection level still appears to require specifying safe => true per query.

[Hannes Magnusson]

That is an excellent point - we don't actually support safe writes on
the connection level..

We are in the process of rolling out 1.3.0.. could you file a jira
ticket about this issue?
This is definitely something we should look at :)

-Hannes

[Arkadiy]

Looks like there is already one here:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PHP-298

added my thoughts