Installing the PHP 7 MongoDB Client/Driver?

Question

I am very eager to start working with PHP 7 however one issue is getting in the way... I primarily use MongoDB for the database, and the problem is that I don\'t know how to

Answer 1

• First we need to install MongoDB in the machine through the steps mentioned here: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
• The next step is to install a MongoDB driver to use with PHP.

• The MongoDB driver for PHP Version 5.99.99 or older was: https://pecl.php.net/package/mongo to install this we need to use:

  sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev

  sudo pecl install mongo

• From PHP 7 onwards, this is the new driver https://pecl.php.net/package/mongodb To install that use: sudo pecl install mongodb

• If you are using Laravel framework or projects with composer, then this library is the most apt one: https://github.com/jenssegers/Laravel-MongoDB Use version 3.0.0 to get PHP 7 & Laravel 5 support and otherwise use the older version 2.2.2 Composer command:

  composer require jenssegers/mongodb

• If you are using other PHP frameworks without composer, use this library: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-library which is also used in the above mentioned library