I am trying to use the migrate
function in Laravel 4
on OSX
. However, I am getting the following error:
Laravel requir
Or, use:
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
not sure if this will work on standard PHP installs - I installed php 5.5.7
using the package from :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
sudo apt-get update
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.
This solved it for me on my Linux Mint local enviroment https://askubuntu.com/questions/350942/cannot-get-mcrypt-for-php5
I needed to make a symlink to my /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini file in the following folders /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini and /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
For ubuntu try these steps if others are not working :
cd ~
sudo apt-get remove php5-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
Hope that will help. Thanks !
Enter the command which php
in the terminal to see which version of PHP you are using. If it's not the PHP version from MAMP, the $PATH variable used by Bash will need to be updated.
First, you should use command "cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php" to check which php version from MAMP and take note of the version (eg, php5.6.7).
Once you know the version, you should edit the ~/.bash_profile
file (that is, the .bash_profile
that is in your home directory) and add an export line:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.7/bin:$PATH
Make sure that you replace php5.6.7 with the version of PHP that you have selected in MAMP.
Once the file has been saved, make sure that you close close your Terminal and open it again. Once that has been done, you will be using the PHP that ships with MAMP.
One way to easily find what the line should be that you need to put inside your .bash_profile
is to run the following command inside your terminal:
echo export PATH=`cat /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf \
| grep php | grep -i LoadModule | head -n1 \
| sed -e 's/^[^\/]*\/\(.*\)\/mod.*/\/\1/'`/bin:\$PATH
Copying and pasting those three lines into your terminal will correctly output the PHP version that has been selected inside the MAMP control panel.
Make sure that your path
contains /usr/local/bin/
(Homebrew) or /opt/local/bin
(MacPorts) if you are using PHP that comes with either of these two package managers.
You can find the exact location of PHP using MacPorts with the following command:
port contents php70 | grep bin/php
Note that you should replace php70
with the version of PHP that you have installed.
Homebrew-php (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php) is a tap that has various different versions of PHP.
You can find the exact location of PHP using Homebrew with the following command:
brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56
Note that you should replace php56
with the version of PHP that you have installed.
Laravel does not need mcrypt
extension anymore. mcrypt
is obsolete, the last update to libmcrypt was in 2007. Laravel 4.2 is obsolete too and has no more support. The best (=secure) solution is to update to Laravel >5.1 (there is no LTS before Laravel 5.2).
Mcrypt was removed from Laravel in June 2015: https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/9041