MongoDB on OS X with the stock PHP installation
MongoDB was mentioned a few times at tek and I said that I wanted to have a look at.
Travis’ article, MongoDB: A first look, came out a few days ago and piqued my interest further. Then Matthew sent me some source code that requires it. The stage was set for getting MongoDB working on my Mac.
MongoDB
I use homebrew as a package manager for installing open source bits and bobs like couchdb, git, and hg. Installing MongoDB was simply a case of:
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brew install mongodb |
Once, installed there’s a convenient LaunchAgent plist supplied so that mongodb starts with the computer:
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cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/1.4.3-x86_64/org.mongodb.mongod.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mongodb.mongod.plist |
And at this point, MongoDB is installed on your Mac and Travis’ article and the tutorial work!
The Mongo PHP extension
If you’ve been following along here for a while, then you’ll know that I use the stock PHP that comes with Mac OS X. I’ve been very happy with it so far and installed Xdebug was easy enough using pecl, so I was hopeful that the mongo extension would be equally simple.
Turns out that it is!
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pecl install mongo |
Compiles the extension with no problems.
To add it to your PHP install, edit php.ini and add:
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extension=mongo.so |
A quick sudo apachectl restart and phpinfo() shows this:
All done! You can now get at MongoDB from your PHP scripts.
