Why yiisoft/yii2-mongodb requires a mongo extension?

[dstudio (Nedim T)]

Hi there,

I wonder why Yii2 required Mongo extension http://php.net/manual/en/mongo.installation.php since it’s deprecated?

Thanks

[samdark (Alexander Makarov)]

2.1 version of an extension is to be released very soon. It uses http://php.net/manual/en/set.mongodb.php, see https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-mongodb/blob/master/composer.json#L22. You can try it by specifying "master" as version.