Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension

Question

I am trying to use the migrate function in Laravel 4 on OSX. However, I am getting the following error:

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Answer 1

You need an all in one environment. You may use MAMP or XAMPP or any other tools. After installing one of these tools you will need to edit(create) your .bash_profile(Assuming that you use bash).

Or even simple and more professional you can use Laravel Homestead.

Here is a link to official documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead

Also Jeffrey has a free tutorial about it: https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/episodes/2

I advice you to go with homestead because you will preinstall all of the following tools.

• Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 5.6
• HHVM
• Nginx
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Node (With Bower, Grunt, and Gulp)
• Redis
• Memcached
• Beanstalkd
• Laravel Envoy
• Fabric + HipChat Extension