Mcrypt with Mamp Pro on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10

Question

After the Yosemite update yesterday, something is messed up with the Mcrypt extension. The PHP based artistan CLI of the Laravel framework returns:

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Answer 1

I've contacted MAMP support, and this is what they responded.

Hi,

Our php.ini file is messed up for 5.6.1. Go to your template files and change this line

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1 ....

to

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226

We will have a full fix in a few days. You can also just downgrade to php 5.5. in the meantime.