MongoDB

// Establish connection.
$connection = new Mongo();

// Select database.
$database = $connection->demo;

// Drop database.
$dropped = $database->drop();
var_dump($dropped);

// Close connection.
$connection->close();

// Establish connection.
$connection = new Mongo();
// Select database, create database if database not exists.
$database = $connection->demo;
// Select collection.
$collection = $database->users;
// Insert data.
$user = array(
  'name' => 'Dribbit',
  'email' => 'info@dribbit.eu',
);
$collection->insert($user);

// Get all records.
$records = $collection->find();
var_dump($records);
foreach($records as $record) {
  var_dump($record);
}

// Close connection.
$connection->close();

Type following command in command line terminal:

sudo nano /etc/mongodb.conf

This is based on an Ubuntu system.

Type following line in command line:

sudo pecl install mongo

If Pecl throws this error: configure: error: sasl.h not found! add following command and retry installing mongodb

sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev

After installing, add the mongo extension to php.ini

extension=mongo.so

Restart apache:

32 bit systems are limited to DB of 2 gig. Therefor, use MongoDB only on 64 bit systems in production.

@see MongoDb documentation to install MongoDB.

See if MongoDB is running by typing

sudo service mongodb status

in command line.