Laravel Mcrypt PHP extension required.

there are 3 steps to fixing these "missing xxx" or xxx required problems in Laravel/PHP

1) install the system libraries. Curl, mcrypt, zip all have corresponding .so libraries and .h header files which you have to install first.

>sudo yum install libmcrypt-devel

2) install the php extension which acts as a wrapper for these c++/c system libs.

>sudo yum install php-mcrypt..

3) recompile php with the mcrypt option so it knows to load the header files...

>./configure --with-curl --with-mcrypt --enable-zip

make sure to keep the other options as you keep on debugging.