laravel artisan migrate give Mcrypto error in php 7.2 (CLI) - php

Question

I have new in laravel I have set up laravel 5.5 in my system and its installed but when i start to use php artisan migrate its give error
Mcrypt PHP extension required
But when I run the phpinfo on browser there is mcrypt enable but its show the
PHP Version 7.1.12
But in terminal when I run the
php -v
its result
PHP 7.2.2-3+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Feb 6 2018 16:11:23) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.2-3+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
I think Mycrypt not installed in the cli php
How can I fix it and make a laravel project
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As it mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37761637/8489245
You can try to install it with :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.2-mcrypt
sudo apt-get upgrade
if php7.2-mycrypt does not exist you can try to go back to version 7-0 of php and install it with :
sudo apt-get install mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt
Hope it help you!

Answer 2

mcrypt was deprecated in php7.1 and removed in 7.2.
From the release notes of Laravel 5.1:
In previous versions of Laravel, encryption was handled by the mcrypt PHP extension. However, beginning in Laravel 5.1, encryption is handled by the openssl extension, which is more actively maintained.
So you should be using openssl_encrypt, libsodium or another supported library.
Currently enabled modules:
$ php -m
[PHP Modules]
bcmath
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
hash
iconv
intl
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
readline
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
soap
sodium
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib
[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache