Class 'Mongo' not found when using Mongor bundle in Laravel

Question

Problem: When using the mongor bundle for Laravel, I get an error Class 'Mongo' not found. Any ideas what went wrong?

I installed mongodb and started the mongodb service. Next I installed the mongor bundle and created/updated the following files.

php artisan bundle:install mongor

bundles.php

return array(
    'docs' => array('handles' => 'docs'),
    'mongor' => array('auto' => true),
);

database.php

'default' => 'mongor',

'mongor' => array(
    'hostname'   => 'localhost',
    'connect'    => true,
    'timeout'    => '',
    'replicaSet' => '',
    'db'         => 'test',
    'username'   => '',
    'password'   => '',
),

user.php

<?php

class User extends Mongor\Model {}

routes.php

Route::get('test', function() {
    $user = User::find(1);
});

ERROR

Class 'Mongo' not found
Location: /var/www/test/bundles/mongor/mongodb.php on line 85

Line causing error

$this->_connection = new \Mongo($conn, $options);

Answer 1

The problem is that you don't have a driver installed.

In order to connect to MongoDB you must have the PHP driver which will allow you to communicate to MongoDBs interface.

You cna find the installation guide in the PHP manual ( http://php.net/manual/en/mongo.installation.php ) or on the MongoDB website ( http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/php/ ).

Make sure to start MongoDB with auth turned off for your case.