The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

Question

I just followed the tutorial located at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu while fixing multiple other er

Answer 1

I am on a Mac OS X Yosemite using Terminal, and I fix this error

the requested PHP extension mcrypt is missing from your system

by running the following commands :

brew update
brew upgrade
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
brew install php54-mcrypt