Please bear with me here for a second. I am quite new to working with frameworks especially Laravel. However, I have seriously tried to set everything up using various tutorials and the documentation.
I am now using MAMP as my local server and a have installed laravel via composer.
However, in most of the tutorials people are using artisan commands in terminal to create migrations.
I always get the same error here even though I have already tried to download another php version and mcrypt and to set those things up in the terminal.
Is there maybe anything I have to do in MAMP?
I have already seen this question but I cant figure out which one of all these solutions fits my situation:
Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension
I would be very glad if somebody could give me some ideas here.
Thanks.
You receiving Mcrypt not found error because your Mac terminal using system's PHP and unfortunately, Default PHP don't have the MyCrypt extension.
How to enable Mcrypt:
The easiest solution is, use the MAMP's PHP
How to use MAMP?
Simply edit ~/.profile (ie. open Terminal.app, type vim ~/.profile or nano ~/.profile) and add the following line to end of the file:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.x.x/bin/:$PATH
Note that you should replace x.x in php5.x.x with the MAMP Pro PHP version.
My setting:
in your terminal:
nano /Users/anam/.bash_profile
^^^ your mac home directory
I have placed the following code to my .bash_profile:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:$PATH