Suggested Additions/Fixes To *AMP Stacks

Hi,

and thanks for a marvellous and well organised stack! I can consistently use your LAMP and WAMP stacks and know that everything is in exactly the same place, platform by platform. However, would you set up a forum topic for additions to the stacks (or set up this one!)?

I use a lot of symmetrical encryption in my applications, unfortunately i stumbled across the fact that the mcrypt libraries are not compiled as part of your stack. Would it be asking too much to have these valuable libraries included?

Regards,

Shrike71

Hi Shrike,

The extension should be included in WAMPstack already. We will include the extension in future versions of LAMPStack as well, thanks for the suggestion

Best regards

Daniel

Any chance you might also add openssl?

Thanks,

Beeze.

It does look like mcrypt is installed, but it needs to be uncommented in the php.ini file.

However, I have uncommented it and I am still getting an error from magento saying that it is not loaded. Any ideas?

I’ve tried insatlling libmcrypt4, mcrypt and php5mcrypt via synaptic package manager (and restarting my machine) but no joy. Although maybe they need to be installed elsewhere?

Hi,

The problem of mcrypt is that it need to be added during the php compilation. We should add this component to the Stack and it is on our TODO list.

Cheers.

Would it be possible to simply download and install a version of PHP that has mcrypt included, and then put that in place of the current php folder in mampstack?

no, it is not a simple process, there are library dependencies that should be resolved during compilation time.