Installation

    This extension has been moved to the » PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 7.2.0

    Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » https://pecl.php.net/package/mcrypt.

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    biz at svstartuplab dot com
    10 years ago
    I needed to install mcrypt on Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 for installing the Laravel 5 framework. I entered in the Terminal command line:

    brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
    brew install php54 php54-mcrypt

    This installed Mcrypt. In Terminal type php -i to see a list of everything installed or for much better formatting and easier to read make a phpinfo.php page with this inside <?php phpinfo(); ?>

    More help with installing on OS X:
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14595841/installing-mcrypt-extension-for-php-on-osx-mountain-lion
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Note, for Ubuntu, simply installing php5-mcrypt did not get mcrypt to work. You need to execute the following commands as root to enable it:

    apt-get install php5-mcrypt
    mv -i /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/
    php5enmod mcrypt
    service apache2 restart
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    james dot mclean at gmail dot com
    15 years ago
    You can install Mcrypt from the PHP Source Tree as a module if you choose.

    You first need to ensure you have libmcrypt, libmcrypt-devel, and mcrypt installed, then do:

    # cd php-5.x.x/ext/mcrypt
    # phpize
    # aclocal
    # ./configure
    # make && make install

    Enable the module by adding: 'extension=mcrypt.so' to PHP.ini.

    Done!

    Very handy if you need to install a single module and you may have installed PHP via RPM, but don't wish to recompile your whole PHP install.
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    Polichism
    10 years ago
    If you don't have a /etc/php5/conf.d directory, you can simply only do: php5enmod mcrypt

    Should be working fine.
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