The following code should work. I could have missed something, but right now I have it as 2 separate update statements and have decided to ask here why this line isn\'t work
The third argument to MongoCollection::update is an array of options for the update operation.
$this->db->settings->update( array('_id' => $mongoID), array('$set' => array('about' => $about, 'avatar' => $avatar)) );