Mcrypt PHP extension installation doesn't work

Question

I am trying to install laravel via composer ( http://laravel.com/docs/quick#installation ) and I got stuck at the point where it requires Mcrypt extension

Mcrypt PHP extension required.

I installed Mcrypt extension using brew. But still it throws the same requirement error. I also tried changing the path as suggested here but my which php doesn't show anything other than

/usr/bin/php

Am I doing something wrong with assigning path at ~/.bash_profile? why is "which php" output still the same. and why is mcrypt installation not working on laravel workout?

Answer 1

OK, I was fed up off all other solutions which weren't working, so finally downloading and compiling php from source itself worked.

So here's what I did:

1. Download php from official site

2. Follow following instructions

   cd to/extracted/php/folder
   cd /ext/mycript
   phpize
   ./configure
   make
   make test
   sudo make install
   

Add extension=mcrypt.so to /etc/php.ini file. Now restart the server

sudo apachectl restart

You are good to go, Cheers! :)

Answer 2

What command did you use to install mcrypt? It is possible that you try to install the mcrypt extension for the wrong php version.

Try debugging the situation with

php -v

and

ls -al /usr/bin/php

There is a different install recipe for version 5.5 and 5.4 of PHP.

brew install php54-mcrypt
brew install php55-mcrypt