Issue in installing php7.2-mcrypt

Question

As I\'m trying to load mcrypt extension module from PHP 7.2.X version.
So I tried to make use of PECL library that is compatible to the current version of my PHP, in ord

Answer 1

@praneeth-nidarshan has covered mostly all the steps, except some:

• Check if you have pear installed (or install):

$ sudo apt-get install php-pear

• Install, if isn't already installed, php7.2-dev, in order to avoid the error:

sh: phpize: not found

ERROR: `phpize’ failed

$ sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev

• Install mcrypt using pecl:

$ sudo pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

• Add the extention extension=mcrypt.so to your php.ini configuration file; if you don't know where it is, search with:

$ sudo php -i | grep 'Configuration File'