Install and Configure MongoDB with PHP on Windows

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Adding PHP Support for MongoDB
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   01. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the PHP installation directory
   02. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell window here...
   03. Run the following command to output the PHP version information
   04. Note the architecture (x86 or x64) and the PHP version
   06. Click the Windows DLL link
   07. Select either the x86 or x64 to match the PHP installation. If using PHP with Apache or nginx download the Thread Safe version. If using PHP for IIS, download the Non-Thread Safe version
   08. Extract the downloaded .zip file
   09. Copy the .dll file from the extracted folder to the PHP installation /ext directory
   11. Search for ;extension=
   12. At the bottom of the list of extensions, add the following line
         extension=mongodb
   13. Restart the web server to apply the change
 
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Installing MongoDB on Windows
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   02. Navigate to the Downloads directory ≫ Launch the MongoDB .msi installer
   03. Step through the installer accepting all the defaults
 
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Testing PHP and MongoDB
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   04. The page will create a new database called phpDemo, a collection named states, write some rows and then read them back and display them in a table
 
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Install MongoDB Compass (Optional)
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   03. Extract the downloaded .zip file
   04. Move the extracted files to a folder where it will run from permanently (ie C:\Program Files\MongoDBCompass\)
   06. Once the application loads, click the green Connect button to connect to the locally running MongoDB instance
 
 

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[MrVibhore]

Thanks a lot sir, after spending 12 hours(to fix the issues), to load mongodb extensions in php, finally using this video, i have made it done in just 15minutes. Thanks a lot for uploading this video.

[diogopereira]

Hello!

I'm trying to start the MongoDB service, but when I apply the command "net start MongoDB" I received the follow error message: "The name of the service is invalid". Can you help me to solve it? I did your tutorial step by step and all of instructions were followed correctly.