Comments on: HOWTO Install MongoDB for PHP on Mac OS X

By: Andrej Baran

Andrej Baran — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:48:14 +0000

Great tutorial ;) Thank you a lot {Readed from Slovakia}

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By: Mateus Gomes

Mateus Gomes — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:23:48 +0000

If you are trying to install mongo with xampp see: http://php.net/manual/pt_BR/mongo.installation.php#mongo.installation.osx
I had to download and extract manually the mongo.so file in my php extension directory. If you don’t know where is located your extension directory check on phpinfo() and place the mongo.so the extension directory.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:33:34 +0000

Thanks a lot for these installation instructions. I had MongoDB already installed several months ago on Snow Leopard and wanted everything back on a fresh installation of Mac OS X Lion. As I had Apache and PHP already running, because it’s shipped with the OS as we know, all I really needed was the PHP extension (mongo.so). I don’t really understand why you can’t just download it somewhere, which I did successfully several months ago – after a lot of searching though.

If some readers of this post feel it’s still too complicated, here’s my shortcut assuming they’ve got the Mac OS’s default Apache and PHP already running and just want to add MongoDB support as fast and easy as possible:

(1) Skip steps 1 to 3. Step No 3 takes ages to build everything and to date from MacPorts all you get is MongoDB 1.8.3. Download MongoDB 2.0.0 (or whatever the latest version is) binaries from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads. Unzip wherever you want and you’re ready to run MongoDB.

(2) Download my PHP extension I’ve built to skip steps 11 and 12 from http://bit.ly/mongoso, unzip and copy the file to the right place (sudo cp mongo.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/) and continue with step 13. But now listen carefully: Firstly I won’t host this file there forever, so if it’s gone it’s gone. Secondly I can’t promise it’ll work on your Mac. I’ve built it on an iMac running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 with PHP 5.3.6 and have also successfully tested the extension by copying it to a MacBook Air – so why shouldn’t it run on your Mac as well? But if it doesn’t (your Apache probably won’t start up then) you might have to build it yourself as described in this post.

A tip for those following step 11: You might not have “wget” installed on your Mac. Use this command instead: curl -O http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar

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By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:18:42 +0000

Thank you for your instructions.

They were most helpful

By: Anish Nair

Anish Nair — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:21:59 +0000

Yeah, MongoDB is not meant for client-side stuff.

I'd never heard of IndexedDB, looks cool, but is there a concrete implementation, looks like a specification? SQLite with its wide language support would have been my first choice for client-side storage. And LevelDB is probably worth investigating as well.

By: Manas Tungare

Manas Tungare — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:35:09 +0000

Rahul, IndexedDB seems like what you're looking for. It doesn't use the File API, but the data is all stored by the browser in the user's profile.

By: Rahul Saxena

Rahul Saxena — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:37:24 +0000

Local (Client Side) storage only. I am open to any language binding on the client-side

By: Anish Nair

Anish Nair — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:24:21 +0000

+Rahul Saxena I don't know much about HTML 5 interfaces, but I'm fairly certain you won't find anything that does something this specific out of the box. First off, do you need local storage or a distributed data source?