mcrypt is not installed with the php 5.6

Question

I have installed the php version 5.6 and in order to run my laravel application it is asking to install and enable the mcrypt extension. These are the steps I followed.

brew install php56 php56-mcrypt
nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Then editing the httpd.conf file I added the following.

LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/opt/php56/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

But when I run the following command in order to check the "mcrypt" availability still it shows that it is not installed.

php -i | grep "mcrypt"

Did you add the `extension=/where/ever/php/extensions/are/installed/mcrypt.so` to the `php.ini` file? — RiggsFolly, Dec 03 '19 at 09:30
I would strongly recommend to upgrade to a supported PHP version. Mcrypt has been removed from PHP already. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/41272257/1839439 — Dharman, Dec 03 '19 at 09:35
Just because I think the point needs emphasising - **PHP 5.6 is dead**. It has been out of active support for nearly 3 years and security patches stopped almost a year ago (Debian notwithstanding) - you **really** should upgrade. — CD001, Dec 03 '19 at 09:37
Anyway this issue have been sorted since I have used another ubuntu PC for this thing. Thanks for the support guys. — Ruchira Bandara, Dec 04 '19 at 04:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 27 '22 at 19:26

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I made it working on mac or windows using the Xampp that uses php 5.6 and my issue with the mcrypt is gone.

edited Apr 27 '22 at 19:26

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answered Apr 27 '22 at 18:44

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mcrypt is not installed with the php 5.6

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