How to solve the mcrypt error (magento, laravel) - Tutorial [ENG]

In this tutorial we will solve the php mcrypt error that appears when working with other software or libraries like magento or laravel.

Step for Step:

xcode-select --install

3.) install php5.6 + mcrypt:
brew install homebrew/php/php56-mcrypt

4.) navigate to the webservers configuration file(standard apache on mac OS X 10.11): cd /etc/apache2

5.) open the config file:

6.) enter computer password

9.) paste new directory to the php5.6 that we have installed with homebrew

10.) press cmd+X, then Y, and enter

11.) restart your webserver

[shekharreddy]

Hi, i am a newbie here to PHP and all I want to know is that how and where(direct me to an example) I should add the extension=mcrypt.so line in PHP.ini file, can you help in doing that :)

OS: Ubuntu 14.04

[ayamaher]

can you mention the difference on windows not ubunu