Mcrypt扩展不存在

Question

When I try to update my composer for Laravel 4 I run into an issue in my terminal. I keep getting "Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension."

When I double check my installment it shows that my mcrypt is already installed.

Rachaels-MacBook-Pro-2:DRCSports rachaelhill$ brew upgrade mcrypt
Error: mcrypt-2.5.8 already installed
Rachaels-MacBook-Pro-2:DRCSports rachaelhill$ brew upgrade php54-mcrypt
Error: php54-mcrypt-5.4.15 already installed

When research google for similar issues I've found is that it's, because my command line is using a different PHP and I just need to enable mcrypt. So I was advise to fix this was to run in terminal...

/usr/bin/env php --ri mcrypt

But when doing so the output I received was, "Extension 'mcrypt' not present".

I have looked at many similar issues and try to find a way to fix this through google, but I'm clearly just not doing something right. Someone please help, so I can continue on with my project. Thank you!

Answer 1

This is the site I used to fix my issue. Even though I had added extension=mcrypt.so to my php.ini I also had to go back and add extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/". The link below will show you step by step,but what I needed was at the very end of it.

http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/how-to-install-mcrypt-for-php-on-mac-osx-lion-10-7-development-server/