Symfony 2: Install and enable the intl extension

Question

I\'m using XAMPP for Windows and decided to try out Symfony 2.

As soon as I get to Symfony Configuration page it recommends me to

Answer 1

For OS X users:

1.Normally, the PHP is automatically installed on OSX. So, if you would like to use the XAMPP, or whatever apache server, you must change the path point to XAMPP. You can check the path by using:

$ which php

(do not copy $ sign, it means than you should type this in Terminal, not php)

You should get: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/php ,

if not, you will get /usr/bin/php.

This is OSX' php. So, you have to change it to XAMPP' php by using:

$ PATH="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:${PATH}"

2.Run this command to download, unpack, compile and install ICU (you can choose different version is your Symfony required):

$ curl -sS -o /tmp/icu.tar.gz -L http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/57.1/icu4c-57_1-src.tgz && tar -zxf /tmp/icu.tar.gz -C /tmp && cd /tmp/icu/source && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install

than run:

$ sudo pecl install intl

and specify where ICU libraries and headers can be found [DEFAULT] :

/usr/local

Pay attention to information in install report:

You should add "extension=intl.so" to php.ini

Don't forget to reboot Apache and check version:

\n";
    echo "ICU: " . INTL_ICU_VERSION . "
\n";
} else {
    die('OOPS! The intl extension is not enabled!');
}

Partially taken from here but modified to get success Install PHP Internationalization extension (Intl) on XAMPP on Mac