I used Homestead as means to install/develop this application. I'm going to eagerly assume you're doing the same, but if you are not, any Linux, Nginx, PHP stack should work fine, simply substitute the pacakge manager commands (eg apt for yum or emerge). I also tested on a Linux/PHP/Mongo stack running php -S localhost:YOURFAVPORT and it worked fine.

0. clone the repo and run composer install

0b) You might need to run sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev to get pecl

1. sudo pecl install mongodb (install OpenSSL if you don't have it, I ran sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config on Homestead)

1b) I found that pecl was a jerk on my ubuntu machine. You can try running the same command with the --nocompress flag like so sudo pecl install --nocompress mongodb. My pecl was also complaining about needing another library to make the mongodb driver. I ran sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev

2. Add extension=mongodb.so to your php.ini file

3. run sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv EA312927 to add the mongodb package management key

4. create the list file for mongodb echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.2 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.2.list

5. update the package database sudo apt-get update

6. install mongodb sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

7. cd into the approot and run php artisan serve hit localhost:8000 in your browser

##Tips##

• You might need to create a .env file in your project directory. Use the .env.example file as a base and delete all database information (or supply it if your mongodb requires auth).

• Speaking of Auth, if your mongodb requires auth, you probably should also update config/database.php file.