Did an installation of MongoDB driver for PHP on my Amazon EC2 AMI just now. And thought of noting the steps down.
Prerequisites
Make sure the following packages are installed.
$ sudo yum install gcc
$ sudo yum install make
$ sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl
$ sudo yum install php
$ sudo yum install php-devel php-pear
$ sudo yum install pcre-devel
Install MongoDB driver for Amazon Linux
Installing Mongo driver.
$ sudo pecl install mongo
Enable the driver
$ sudo vi /etc/php.d/mongo.ini
$ extension=mongo.so
$ sudo /sbin/service httpd restart
Testing
The simplest way to check whether the installation is successful is via
phpinfo().
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
And you should see the following section:
Or test the connection using the code snippet below :)
<?php
// connect
$m = new Mongo("mongodb://mongodb-user:mongodb-password@ds031087.mongolab.com:31087/sample-test-mongodb");
// select a database
$db = $m->{"sample-test-mongodb"};
// select a collection (analogous to a relational database's table)
$collection = $db->cartoons;
// add a record
$obj = array( "title" => "Calvin and Hobbes", "author" => "Bill Watterson" );
// $collection->insert($obj);
// add another record, with a different "shape"
$obj = array( "title" => "XKCD", "online" => true );
// $collection->insert($obj);
// find everything in the collection
$cursor = $collection->find();
// iterate through the results
foreach ($cursor as $obj) {
echo $obj["title"] . "\n";
}
?>
And you should see following output in browser:
Its quite simple, but hope this help beginners out there :)
