Installing the Mongo PHP Extensions (php_mongo.dll)

Question

Environment in local system

MAMP 3.2.2
PHP 5.6.24
Webserver Apache

Mongodb for caching is installed successfully and found running in MongoDBservice.

I Downloaded Mongodb drivers from https://pecl.php.net/package/mongodb (used thread safe versions PHP5.6 "php_mongodb.dll") selected php_mongo-1.1.8-5.6-ts-vc11-x64.zip, Made changes to php.ini as extension=php_mongo.dll

I just copied and pasted .dll file in my C:\MAMP\bin\php\php5.6.24\ext So far good... After restarting my MAMP I cannot see mongo in phpinfo ---->This is my issue

Any idea about this? Thank you

Answer 1

Just copying the DLL file to the correct directory is not enough. You also need to add the following line to your php.ini file before the MongoDB extension is available:

extension=php_mongo.dll

After that restart Apache and MongoDB should show up as an available extension in phpinfo().

By the way, that is also mentioned on the official PHP website for installing the MongoDB driver: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mongodb.installation.windows.php

Answer 2

Should be extension="php_mongodb.dll instead of extension="php_mongo.dll as it is the name of the file you copied.