Fatal error: Call to undefined function openssl_random_pseudo_bytes()

Question

I am getting this exception when trying to run my PHP unit tests:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function openssl_random_pseudo_bytes()

Answer 1

Your php installation either does not have openssl enabled, or you could be running a version of php < 5.3.

To enable openssl, you must re-compile and install php with the "–with-openssl" flag. See php installation documentation