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Hello everyone!

I have posted this topic to explain to anyone who might have been as confused as i was for a while on how to setup mcryt, because sincerily there arn't many recent topics explaining this.

so if you log into phpMyAdmin and it says Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration, then you have to do the following:


Go to *path to XAMPP*\Apache\bin\php.ini and cahnge



Now go to *path to XAMPP*\php\php.ini and change



Save both files, close and voila!

that should make mcrypt work now

P-S: For those of you that are REALLY new to this, you are basically only taking the semi-colons ( ; ) off from the begining of the line.

Hi Starrie. I've followed your post on how to enable encryption in XAMPP. I'm still having troubles using the libraries.
this is my code so far:

<?php
$llave = "key";
$entrada = "This is my encripted message";

$datos_cifrados = mcrypt_ecb (MCRYPT_3DES, $llave, $entrada, MCRYPT_ENCRYPT);
echo $datos_cifrados;
?>

This code gives me this message:

Warning: mcrypt_ecb() [function.mcrypt-ecb]: Attempt to use an empty IV, which is NOT recommend in C:\xampplite\htdocs\Samples\ejemplo.php on line 5
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Starrie I'm having the same trouble, i was hoping your solution would work. I did the changes you suggest and i still get the same error when i open phpmyadmin. Is there more to edit that was not mention here?

Copying from the Manual

String mcrypt_ecb ( int $cipher, string $key, string $data, int $mode )

string mcrypt_ecb ( string $cipher, string $key, string $data, int $mode [, string $iv] )

Use the second method. Just check wikipedia for IV to understand the theory. Goes back to analogue encryption devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization_vector

PROBLEM: cannot load mcrypt extension. please check your php configuration

I have done as suggested at http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/mcrypt.setup.php and copied libmcrypt.dll from F:\wamp\bin\php\PHP52~1.8 to C:\WINDOWS\system32 . This did not work on it's own. I found other advice as follows at this forum and now mcrypt is working.

OTHER ADVICE: (not exactly as from other contributor, but found my way from there..)

Go to F:\wamp\bin\php\PHP52~1.8\php.ini
change ;extension=php_mcrypt.dll
to extension=php_mcrypt.dll
(ie. remove ; )

now go to the following 2 files and do the same:
F:\wamp\bin\php\PHP52~1.8\phpForApache.ini
F:\wamp\bin\apache\APACHE~1.11\bin\php.ini

Please adjust the directory location per your own installation.
Lesson again is you got to look around. so many different situations! custom, custom..

This is an XAMPP forum not a wamp forum and your paths are totally irrelevant as is your post in a very old topic.

Be sure to appropriately set the extension_dir directive.

example
extension_dir= "c:\xampp\php\ext"