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 just had the same problem.

Just use PHP Version 5.5.17 in MAMP and everything should work fine again.

Remember to switch the version in your .bash_profile too:

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.17/bin:$PATH