Mac Snow Leopard Mcrypt extension

Question

Hi Guys.

Im running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6. When trying to get into phpMyAdmin, I am getting the following error:

"Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm not fantastically technical so a simple explanation would be welcome!

Cheers, Mark.

Answer 1

To get a dl()'able extension, you need to build it. This: http://michaelgracie.com/2009/09/23/plugging-mcrypt-into-php-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10.6.1/ explains how.

Or, start using another PHP distribution (MacPorts springs to mind. Or perhaps Marc Liyanage is still making distributions that matter.)