&reftitle.install; The MongoDB PHP driver should work on nearly any system: Windows, Mac OS X, Unix, and Linux; little- and big-endian machines; 32- and 64-bit machines; PHP 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. &pecl.moved;

For driver developers and people interested in the latest bugfixes, you can compile the driver from the latest source code on Github. Go to Github and click the "download" button. Then run: .tar.gz $ cd mongodb-mongodb-php-driver- $ phpize $ ./configure $ make all $ sudo make install ]]> Make the following changes to php.ini: Make sure the extension_dir variable is pointing to the directory containing mongo.so. The build will display where it is installing the PHP driver with output that looks something like: Make sure that it is the same as the PHP extension directory by runnning: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 => /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613 ]]> If it's not, change the extension_dir in php.ini or move mongo.so. To load the extension on PHP startup, add a line:

Run: If you are using CentOS or Redhat, you may wish to install from an RPM. Add the following line to your php.ini file: If pecl runs out of memory while installing, make sure memory_limit in php.ini is set to at least 128MB.

Precompiled binaries for each release are available from S3 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). Add the following line to your php.ini file: &ext.windows.path.dll; libsasl.dll

If your system is unable to find autoconf, you'll need to install Xcode (available on your installation DVD or as a free download from the Apple website). In most cases installing from pecl is the easiest way: If you are using XAMPP, you may be able to compile the driver with the following command:

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

This includes Fedora and CentOS. The default Apache settings on these systems do not let requests make network connections, meaning that the driver will get "Permission denied" errors when it tries to connect to the database. If you run into this, try running: Then restart Apache. (This issue has also occurred with SELinux.)

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.