I removed the (;) before extension=php_openssl.dll in the php.ini file. I verified that textension_dir = "ext" and I checked that openssl is already there. When I ran "php -m" it showed me that openssl as one of the loaded modules but this test returns the error (extension_loaded = false)
if (!extension_loaded('openssl')){
Errors::$errors[] = array(
'title' => "OpenSSL Extension not loaded",
'message' => "Laravel requires OpenSSL PHP Extension"
);}
in c:/windows there is no php.ini file