MongoDB php7 driver installation - mongodb

Question

I'm working on an Ubuntu 16 server and I can't seem to get the mongodb driver for php 7 to work. I installed it successfully on my xampp on my windows machine but Ubuntu and php7 seemingly have vast differences.
I did try to install it via pecl install mongodb and used composer to put in the dependencies but it still does not work. I'm using the same php file from my windows Xampp and when I access the page it throws a 500 status code.
Could someone provide a definitive walkthrough on how to install this driver and maybe also how to revert any changes I made using composer and pecl?

Answer 1

Cool even I tried with pecl but didn't work as expected. It work with pecl7 Also, I received this warning along with error, WARNING: "pecl/mongo" is deprecated in favor of "channel:///mongodb" pecl/mongo requires PHP (version >= 5.3.0, version <= 5.99.99), installed version is 7.1.8. Also, got 500 Internal server error.
Before that MongoDB php7 driver, I needed the memcache and getting phphize error that I solved using this repo. Then finally I use this low level PHP driver for MongoDB.
$ git clone https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver.git
$ cd mongo-php-driver
$ git submodule sync && git submodule update --init
$ /usr/bin/phpize
$ ./configure
$ make all -j 5
$ sudo make install
You can confirm from the output that mongodb.so driver is installed.
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
extension=mongodb.so
Then only step remaining is make it available in your respective path. You can check your extensions_dir in php.ini with the following command,
$ php -i | grep extension_dir
extension_dir => /usr/lib64/php/7.0/modules => /usr/lib64/php/7.0/modules
And, I can verify that mongodb.so is present into the above directory. Then reload the composer and you are good to go ! Hope this helps as it work for me.