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■ There are many community-driven MongoDB drivers available. A long list can be
found on the MongoDB website, www.mongodb.org .

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Installing the PHP Driver
PHP is one of the most popular programming languages in existence today. This language
is specifically aimed at web development, and it can be incorporated into HTML easily.
This fact makes the language the perfect candidate for designing a web application, such
as a blog, a guestbook, or even a business-card database. The next few sections cover your
options for installing and using the MongoDB PHP driver.

Getting MongoDB for PHP
Like MongoDB, PHP is a cross-platform development tool, and the steps required to set
up MongoDB in PHP vary depending on the intended platform. Previously, this chapter
showed you how to install MongoDB on both Ubuntu and Windows; we'll adopt the same
approach here, demonstrating how to install the driver for PHP on both Ubuntu and
Windows.
Begin by downloading the PHP driver for your operating system. Do this by firing
up your browser and navigating to www.mongodb.org . At the time of writing, the website
includes a separate menu option called Drivers. Click this option to bring up a list of
currently available language drivers (see Figure 2-2 ).

Figure 2-2. A short list of currently available language drivers for MongoDB