[Solved] Disabling the PHP mcrypt Extension

[muno]

Hello,

I'm trying to disable the mcrypt PHP extension to test my program without it and having hard time finding how.

I was advised to remove extension = php_mcrypt.dll in php.ini but I cannot find it.

I'm using the portable version of XAMP 1.8.1 on Windows XP.

Thanks in advance.

[Altrea]

Hi muno,

I'm trying to disable the mcrypt PHP extension to test my program without it and having hard time finding how.
I was advised to remove extension = php_mcrypt.dll in php.ini but I cannot find it.

Since PHP 5.3 mcrypt is connected statically with the PHP Binaries. There is no .dll any more you can disable.

best wishes,
Altrea

[muno]

Oh really. I'll try with an older version then. One of my users claims my program doesn't work with an error relating to mcrypt so I have to test without it. Thanks for answering.

Okay, I downloaded xampp-win32-1.7.1-installer.exe found from this page http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/ That version had PHP v5.2.9 and I could find the line, extension=php_mcrypt.dll. in php.ini. After commenting it out and restarting Apache, the extension was successfully disabled.