How can I install mcrypt under PHP7? Laravel needs it

Question

Since Laravel4 requires mcrypt extension, and PHP7 doesn't seem to have mcrypt extension, is there any workaround for this to work?

Solution 1

Had the same issue - PHP7 missing mcrypt.

This worked for me. When asked, keep local PHP configuration files.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt
sudo apt-get upgrade

Restart FPM (or Apache or NGINX etc.) after installation.

Solution 2

I'm on Mac and with laravel valet I've solved with this:

brew install php70-mcrypt

Solution 3

Even if you enable mcrypt in php.ini, this issue may occur. Try the following steps.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt

I am working in ubuntu 16.04 and the following commands also helped me.

whereis php  -shows the files with this name
php -v   -shows the php version
which php -shows current php version that is running on the server

Solution 4

On ubuntu: According to launchpad.net the package for mcrypt is called php7.0-mcrypt.

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mcrypt to install

Solution 5

Open terminal with Ctrl + Alt + T and run following commands for PHP7.0 on Ubuntu 16.4

sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart

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Comments

[Bishal Paudel]

Can you please elaborate how I install PHP7 Mcrypt? I tried to find if PHP7 has any Mcrypt extension, but to no avail. PHP5 had Mcrypt as php5-mcrypt which can be enabled and disabled easily with php5enmod and php5dismod respectively.

[Tom Davies]

This worked for me when the ppa for installation via apt-get was failing, so thanks! Would be great if you could fix the formatting in your answer though as it's a little hard to follow.

[user985366]

I had to do this first sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

[Osama Al-Banna]

@user985366 thanks ...yes we have to do this sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php and then sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt sudo apt-get upgrade and then it worked for me

[user3707264]

In /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini you have to check that the extension is enabled: extension=mcrypt.so and not ;extension=mcrypt.so

[enchance]

@Ryderpro Do we need to install mcrypt when we're already getting php7.0-mcrypt? Or are they 2 diff things entirely?