Nancy Wilson: How to Enable MongoDB Extension with XAMPP

Enabling MongoDB extension (library) for PHP is quite simple, and ready within few steps listed below.

Assuming, XAMPP running on your PC already, create a PHP page: info.php

<?php

// this command will check and tell if mongodb extension is already installed or not.

echo “mongo extension status :: “ . extension_loaded("mongo") ?"loaded\n" :"not loaded\n";

// this will print whole PHP install details (like version, architecture VC version etc)

phpinfo();

Execute this info.php page on browser and search “mongo extension status” and see if value is “loaded” or “not loaded”.

If loaded, nothing else to follow, just make a test connection with Mongo server.

If not loaded, then follow these steps to install it.

System:-windows NT KAPIL-BUDHIRAJA 6.2 build 9200(Window 8 Professional Edition)i586

Build Date: Jun 22 201616:05:20

Compiler:-MSVC11 (Visual C++2012)

Architecture: x86

Open this site, https://s3.amazonaws.com/drivers.mongodb.org/php/index.html, and download the php_mongo_?.?.?.zip according to your php version.

In my case, I downloaded php_mongo-1.4.5.zip as my php version is 5.5.37

php< 5.5 è php_mongo-1.3.5.zip

php>= 5.5 and php< 6.0 è php_mongo-1.4.5.zip

php>= 6.0 è php_mongo-1.6.8.zip

Download the php_mongo-?.?.?.zip.
Unzip it.
You will see many files after extraction of zip. Here we need to pick a file based on PHP version + compiler version + architecture version, ex:

php_mongo-?.?.? – <PHP version> – <Compiler version> – <Architecture version> .dll

for my pc I picked this file :php_mongo-1.4.5-5.5-vc11-x86_64.dll

6. Copy this file and paste inside folder “C:\xampp\php\ext”.

7. After paste, rename the file as “php_mongo.dll”.

8. Open your php.ini file and ask php to load this module during initialization “extension=php_mongo.dll”

9. Restart Apache service.

10. Open your “info.php” page again on Browser and search “Mongo” as well as “mongo extension status”. You will see the module loaded already.

Nancy Wilson