MongoDB, PHP And Mountain Lion

Here are the necessary steps to make PHP work with MongoDB on vanilla Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion):

  1. Install Command Lion Tools for Xcode

  2. Install Homebrew:

    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

  3. Prioritize Homebrew's binaries in $PATH:

    echo "export /usr/local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile

  4. Install PHP 5.4 with Homebrew:

    # Setup the tap for dependencies
brew tap homebrew/dupes
# This is the best 
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
# And install
brew install php54

  5. Install MongoDB with Homebrew

    brew install mongodb

  6. Install "PHP Driver" for MongoDB:

    sudo pecl install mongo

  7. Done.

Now go run some PHP-MongoDB scripts with the build-in web server from PHP 5.4 like you normally would (don't forget to start mongod) and everything should work.