Composer can't find mongodb extension

[supaheckafresh]

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.

[Denys-Bushulyak]

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

[Denys-Bushulyak]

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

[Denys-Bushulyak]

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.

[Almas-Khan]

I've been banging my head all day and night today over this issue, thank you for the fix @Denys-Bushulyak!

[supaheckafresh]

@Denys-Bushulyak. Thank you, I did try your solution in a test project & it appears to work on Windows! As far as what I was working on before, I ended up installing the mongodb-php driver and jenssegers/mongodb inside of my vagrant machine & this worked great for my earlier project. Getting things set up inside of the vagrant box should have been more obvious to me before, but I'm quite new to Laravel.

[Denys-Bushulyak]

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

[alex-moreno]

@Denys-Bushulyak thanks, I was going through the xhgui install and having issues with mongo deps. That save my day.

[Criscros]

@Denys-Bushulyak I'm running into MAMP but composer update no work and show the same error .... any help me please

[Denys-Bushulyak]

@Criscros, try to look:

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

[Criscros]

i can see where is ini file @Denys-Bushulyak

[Denys-Bushulyak]

Sorry, I said wrong way. it 's your host spec. We need MAMP.

[Criscros]

thx

[thegregthomp]

I just needed to install the php driver for mongo

brew install php56-mongodb