laravel-mongodb: Composer can't find mongodb extension

Hi - I’m running into essentially the same error as in issue #780 when executing composer require jenssegers/mongodb:

$ composer require jenssegers/mongodb
Using version ^3.0 for jenssegers/mongodb
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - jenssegers/mongodb v3.0.0 requires mongodb/mongodb ^1.0.0 -> satisfiable by mongodb/mongodb[1.0.0, 1.0.1].
    - jenssegers/mongodb v3.0.1 requires mongodb/mongodb ^1.0.0 -> satisfiable by mongodb/mongodb[1.0.0, 1.0.1].
    - jenssegers/mongodb v3.0.2 requires mongodb/mongodb ^1.0.0 -> satisfiable by mongodb/mongodb[1.0.0, 1.0.1].
    - mongodb/mongodb 1.0.1 requires ext-mongodb ^1.1.0 -> the requested PHP extension mongodb is missing from your system.
    - mongodb/mongodb 1.0.0 requires ext-mongodb ^1.1.0 -> the requested PHP extension mongodb is missing from your system.
    - Installation request for jenssegers/mongodb ^3.0 -> satisfiable by jenssegers/mongodb[v3.0.0, v3.0.1, v3.0.2].

  To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in those .ini files:
    - C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.0\php.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

I’m running Windows 10 and PHP 7. I installed the mongodb extension (php_mongodb.dll in PHP ext/ folder), and I’ve updated php.ini with extension=php_mongodb.dll. Not sure what I’ve missed. If anyone can help me with this, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

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composer require jenssegers/mongodb --ignore-platform-reqs It solved my problem.

+385

Denys-Bushulyak on May 13, 2016

Or another thing - pecl installing mongodb.so (if we talking about *nix OSes) but putting to mongo.ini: extension=mongo.so but have to extension=mongodb.so If you fix this string at: /etc/php5/mods-available/mongo.ini all have to be ok. Please, ping me if it fix.

+87

Denys-Bushulyak on Jul 26, 2016

@Criscros, try to look:

php -m to see than extenstsion is installed
php -i | grep mongo will show you where mongodb ini file located
change extension=mongo.so if exists to extension=mongodb.so

+37

Denys-Bushulyak on Sep 21, 2016

I executed following commands in order (ubuntu 16.04) (php 7.2)

sudo apt-get install php-mongodb

composer require mongodb/mongodb

composer require jenssegers/mongodb

+16

jagadeshanh on Mar 22, 2018

This worked for me…

sudo pecl install mongodb sudo nano /etc/php5/mods-available/mongodb.ini insert in file extension=mongodb.so sudo ln -sv /etc/php5/mods-available/mongodb.ini /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-mongodb.ini sudo ln -sv /etc/php5/mods-available/mongodb.ini /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mongodb.ini sudo service apache2 restart composer require jenssegers/mongodb

+13

stea4lth on Nov 22, 2016

I just needed to install the php driver for mongo

brew install php56-mongodb

+13

thegregthomp on Sep 27, 2016

try this composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

AymanElshehawy on Mar 31, 2019

Make sure mongodb version/type is correct I use this

sudo yum install -y openssl-devel
sudo yum install pecl
sudo yum install gcc
sudo pecl install mongodb

mjniuz on Oct 27, 2018

Try installing the mongodb extension using homebrew. Change this commands to your php version.

$ brew tap homebrew/php $ brew install php56-mongodb

Then link it to your php.ini

extension=‘/usr/local/opt/php56-mongodb/mongodb.so’

WhatUsersLove on Sep 8, 2017

composer require jenssegers/mongodb --ignore-platform-reqs It solved my problem.

This doesn’t work on Laravel 7

Use alpha release v4

Smolevich on May 13, 2020

composer require jenssegers/mongodb --ignore-platform-reqs It solved my problem.

composer update --ignore-platform-reqs

Loetfi on Jan 22, 2020

I’m using php 5.6, so it helped me

sudo apt-get install -y php-pear php5.6-dev sudo pecl install mongo

sudo sh -c “echo ‘extension=mongo.so’ > /etc/php/5.6/mods-available/mongo.ini” sudo ln -s /etc/php/5.6/mods-available/mongo.ini /etc/php/5.6/apache2/conf.d/mongo.ini

sudo service apache2 restart

sayan0020 on Sep 14, 2017

Thank you all: @Siphion01 and @supaheckafresh. It’s pleasure for me to be helpful.

Denys-Bushulyak on May 19, 2016

Have the same problem but on Ubuntu (Homestead). At searching…

Denys-Bushulyak on May 13, 2016