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?

possible duplicate of [Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16830405/laravel-requires-the-mcrypt-php-extension) — leo, Apr 22 '14 at 11:42
Have you looked at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21762604/mcrypt-not-detected-with-laravel-installation?rq=1 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16830405/laravel-requires-the-mcrypt-php-extension?rq=1 ? — leo, Apr 22 '14 at 11:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '14 at 11:52

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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

answered Apr 22 '14 at 11:52

hannesvdvreken

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I used brew install php54-mcrypt since php -v gives PHP 5.4.24 – Chandan Gupta Apr 22 '14 at 11:57
Did the brew installation succeed? – hannesvdvreken Apr 22 '14 at 11:59
yes it did succeed. How do I check if it succeed or not? – Chandan Gupta Apr 22 '14 at 11:59
And what does `php -r "phpinfo();" | grep mcrypt` say? – hannesvdvreken Apr 22 '14 at 12:04
outputs nothing. but when I give brew install command again it says "Warning: php54-mcrypt-5.4.27 already installed" – Chandan Gupta Apr 22 '14 at 12:06
Now it's time to use `ls -al` to find out which version is run when you execute `php` without any params. `ls -al /usr/bin/php` and follow the symlinks. – hannesvdvreken Apr 22 '14 at 12:17
Here is the output: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10001104 Feb 18 05:08 /usr/bin/php. btw, how do I follow symlinks? – Chandan Gupta Apr 22 '14 at 12:18
It seems like /usr/bin/php is not a symlink. That's odd. – hannesvdvreken Apr 22 '14 at 12:37

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 22 '14 at 21:53

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:

Download php from official site

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! :)

Mcrypt PHP extension installation doesn't work

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