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

1) First check what php.ini file is loaded:

php --ini

You will probably see that none of the files have been loaded.

2) If you don't mind reinstalling php you can do this:

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6

3) Then set the path to your new php installation in order to avoid using the native php that comes with OSX.

In order to set the path use this command - something like this, bear in mind that your path could be different:

export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH