thomaswelton / laravel-mcrypt-faker
Allows installation of Laravel where the PHP Mcrypt extension is not available. Provides encryption using OpenSSL, or by disabling encryption entierly.
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Requires
- php: >=5.4.0
- defuse/php-encryption: ~1.2
Provides
- ext-mcrypt: *
- ext-openssl: *
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Last update: 2024-11-13 07:18:37 UTC
README
This package uses a trick to fool composer into thinking that your system has the PHP Mcrypt extension installed. Allowing you to install Laravel on shared hosts or systems where Mcrypt is not present.
In addition it provides two service providers NoEncryptionServiceProvider
and OpensslEncryptionServiceProvider
for use as an alternative to Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider
Installation
Install via composer to an exisiting working Laravel project.
composer require thomaswelton/laravel-mcrypt-faker
If you are unable to install Laravel via composer due to no having Mcrypt installed then you will need to add this package manually.
Download the latest Laravel source and edit the composer.json
so your require block looks as follows.
"require": {
"thomaswelton/laravel-mcrypt-faker": "1.0.*",
"laravel/framework": "5.0.*"
}
The run composer install
which will install this package along with the laravel framework.
Updating the Encryption Service Provider
In your config/app.php
file remove Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider
from the providers
array and replace it with either Thomaswelton\LaravelMcryptFaker\NoEncryptionServiceProvider
or Thomaswelton\LaravelMcryptFaker\OpensslEncryptionServiceProvider
Also update the cipher
in config/app.php
and set it to null
as the cipher value MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128
is a constant that would not be defined without mcrypt
WARNING The NoEncryptionServiceProvider, as the name suggests, provides no encryption for your application... at all. This should not be used in a production website. And even though the OpensslEncryptionServiceProvider
provides encryption using the defuse/php-encryption package I personally can not attest to how cryptographically secure it's implementation is, even thought it "Works for me"
OpensslEncryption Key
To use the OpensslEncryptionServiceProvider your app secret key needs to be updated. This can be done by running php artisan key:generate-openssl