PHP driver extension installation problems

[michael_demiceli]

Hello. I am running into some significant challenges during the extension’s installation process.

I am following alongside the article series (Getting Set Up to Run PHP with MongoDB | MongoDB) for PHP drier setup. I was able to install all prerequisite packages (PHP, Apache) through Homebrew and was able to successfully install the Mongodb Driver extension through pecl. I also added the “extension=mongodb.so” line to both php.ini files.

However, when I subsequently run the command “php -i | grep mongodb”, I receive an output of:
mongodb
mongodb.debug => no value => no value

I have read through both Mongodb’s documentation and PHP’s documentation but have not yet been able to locate a solution.

I am operating on macOS Monterey (12.2.1). When I tried to uninstall the Mongodb driver with pecl to retry the process, I received a “permission denied” error and the uninstall failed. Not sure if this is related to the issue at hand.

[Jack_Woehr]

Well, you may have to go sudo to delete the driver.
Also, did you reboot after you modified php.ini? Not a bad idea.

[michael_demiceli]

Thanks Jack.

For others’ benefit, the issue was caused by missing prerequisite packages libbson and libmongoc, which I had to install separately and subsequently rerun the process.