Laravel 4 Mcrypt at CLI

Question

I am trying to use phpunit with Laravel 4, but I have Mcrypt problem.

At vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/start.php line 29, Laravel checks to see if mcrypt is enabled.

if ( ! extension_loaded('mcrypt'))
{
    die('Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension.'.PHP_EOL);

    exit(1);
}

When I phpunit at CLI, it says;

Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension.

This is not possible because following commands show that everything is OK.

$ php -v
PHP 5.4.4 (cli)

$ php --ini
Loaded Configuration File: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4/conf/php.ini

$ php -i | grep "mcrypt support"
mcrypt support => enabled

But... When I add following code at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/start.php to see which PHP version is used, CLI displays 5.3.15

die(phpversion().PHP_EOL);

I don't know how this could be possible.

After adding the above code; php artisan displays 5.4.4 but phpunit displays 5.3.15. This is nearly impossible because both use vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/start.php to check if Mcrypt is enabled.

I'm not sure but does Laravel change something when it's in testing environment?

Answer 1

I had the same issue on my mac with two versions of php (that one coming out of the box and another one from macport). so when using the command line, the php version you call depend of your bin path order (echo $PATH).

If you look at the hashbangs :

• artisan starts by #!/usr/bin/env php

• phpunit starts by #!/usr/bin/php

  $/usr/bin/env php -v
  PHP 5.3.25 (cli) (built: Jun  5 2013 12:14:23)
  
  $/usr/bin/php -v
  PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Aug 28 2012 18:19:13)
  

Hope it helps,