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
- Code: Select all
;extension=php_mcrypt.dll
;extension=php_mcrypt_filter.dll
to
extension=php_mcrypt.dll
extension=php_mcrypt_filter.dll
Now go to *path to XAMPP*\php\php.ini and change
- Code: Select all
;extension=php_mcrypt.dll
;extension=php_mcrypt_filter.dll
to
extension=php_mcrypt.dll
extension=php_mcrypt_filter.dll
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.