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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the same error with you, but I perfect sloved it now:
I recommend you unistall OS X's default php and apache Path:
/etc/apache2
/usr/include/apahce2
/usr/libexec/apache2
/usr/php
/usr/bin/php
/usr/bin/php-config
/usr/bin/phpize
/usr/include/php
/usr/lib/php
/usr/share/man/man*/php*
/usr/bin/phar.phar
then
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/pear /usr/bin/pear
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/peardev /usr/bin/peardev
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/pecl /usr/bin/pecl
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/phar.phar /usr/bin/phar.phar
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/php /usr/bin/php
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/php-cgi /usr/bin/php-cgi
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/php-config /usr/bin/php-config
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/phpize /usr/bin/phpize