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This short tutorial will describe how to use MongoDB together with XAMPP.

It is tested with the following environment:

• Windows 7 – 32 Bit
• XAMPP 1.7.3
• MongoDB 1.2.4

1. In the first step we have to download XAMPP and MongoDB (together with the PHP driver for MongoDB).

2. Create the directory datadb on your c drive (–> c:\datadb).

3. Unpack the MongoDB zip file to a disired destination

4. Install XAMPP (do not install MySQL as a service)

5.  Go into your XAMPP directory (something like xampp\php) and add the following line to the file php.ini

extension=php_mongo.dll

6. Unzip the php_mongo.dll to the follwing directory: xampp\php\ext

7. Start the Apache with the XAMPP Control Center

8. Start MongoDB server ( MongoDBDirectory\bin\mongod.exe )

That’s it. If you want to try if everything works you can use try out the following PHP scriptlet:

test.php

<?php
 $m = new Mongo();
 $db = $m->testDB;
  $collection = $db->users;

  // Insert two documents (objects) into the db
  $collection->insert(array("username" => "John", "email" =>
                     "john@doe.de", "password" => "jd"));
  $collection->insert(array("username" => "Jane", "email" =>
                     "jane@doe.de", "password" => "jd"));

  // Display the documents inside the users collection
  $obj = $collection->find();
  foreach ($obj as $user) {
    var_dump($user);
    echo "</br>";
  }
?>

Put test.php in the htdocs directory of XAMPP (e.g. xampp\htdocts\mongoTest\test.php) and call it with your browser:

http://localhost/mongoTest/test.php

Perhaps this tutorial is useful for someone.