Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/mongo.

• » Installing on *NIX

• » Manual Installation

• » OS X

• » Gentoo

• » Fedora

• » Installing on Windows

• » Third-Party Installation Instructions

Installing on *NIX

Run:

$ sudo pecl install mongo

Add the following line to your php.ini file:

extension=mongo.so

If pecl runs out of memory, make sure memory_limit in php.ini is set to at least 32M.

Manual Installation

For driver developers and people interested in the latest bugfixes, you can compile the driver from the latest source on » Github. Go to Github and click the "download" button. Then run:

$ tar zxvf mongodb-mongodb-php-driver-<commit_id>.tar.gz
$ cd mongodb-mongodb-php-driver-<commit_id>
$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ sudo make install

Make the following changes to php.ini:

• 1. The build will display where it is installing the PHP driver with output that looks something like:

  
        Installing '/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-zts-20060613/mongo.so'
  
  

  Make sure that it is the same as the PHP extension directory by runnning:

  
        $ php -i | grep extension_dir
          extension_dir => /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-zts-20060613 =>
        /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-zts-20060613  
  
  

  If it's not, change the extension_dir in php.ini or move mongo.so.

• 2. To load the extension on PHP startup, add a line:

  
        extension=mongo.so
  
  

OS X

If your system is unable to find autoconf, you'll need to install Xcode (available on your installation DVD).

If you are using XAMPP, you may be able to compile the driver with the following command:

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/pecl install mongo

If you are using MAMP (or XAMPP and the above command does not work), precompiled binaries are available from » Github (download the latest one with "osx" in the name that matches your version of PHP). Extract mongo.so from the archive and add it to MAMP or XAMPP's extension directory. Add

      extension=mongo.so

to the php.ini file being used and restart the server.

Gentoo

Gentoo has a package for the PHP driver called dev-php5/mongo, which can be installed with:

$ sudo emerge -va dev-php5/mongo

If you use PECL, you may get an error that libtool is the wrong version. Compiling from source you'll need to run aclocal and autoconf.

$ phpize && aclocal && autoconf && ./configure && make && make install

Fedora

If you don't want to modify php.ini directly, you can create a separate mongo.ini file. Within the /etc/php.d directory, create a subdirectory named mongo (or something else you like). In the mongo directory, create a mongo.ini file. Put the following in your mongo.ini file:

extension=mongo.so

; any other mongo options you'd like (see the Runtime Configuration section) 

Installing on Windows

Precompiled binaries for each release are available from » Github for a variety of combinations of versions, thread safety, and VC libraries. Unzip the archive and put php_mongo.dll in your PHP extension directory ("ext" by default).

The latest (non-release) code is compiled into Windows binaries on every commit. The zip consists of a .zip with php_mongo.dll and a version.txt. Please keep the version.txt around so that if you have a question or problem, you can give the developers the exact version you're using. (The number is long and nonsensical, but it will make sense to the developers!)

To get the latest bug fixes (and possibly bugs), download the binary corresponding to the PHP you have installed:

• » PHP 5.2 VC6 Non-Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.2 VC6 Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.3 VC6 Non-Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.3 VC6 Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.3 VC8 Non-Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.3 VC8 Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.3 VC9 Non-Thread-Safe Mongo extension

• » PHP 5.3 VC9 Thread-Safe Mongo extension

Add the following line to your php.ini file:

extension=php_mongo.dll

Third-Party Installation Instructions

A number of people have created excellent tutorials on installing the PHP driver.

• » PHP 5.3.1 with Xdebug, MongoDB and Lithium on Ubuntu 9.10 / Apache 2.2

  An excellent video that takes you step-by-step through installing Apache, PHP, Xdebug, MongoDB, and Lithium by Jon Adams.

• » Installing MongoDB and the PHP driver on Ubuntu 9.04

  Spanish article by Javier Aranda (» English translation).

• » OS X: Installing MongoDB and the PHP Mongo Driver

  By Matt Butcher.