Vipul Kapoor Whip

This has been tested with XAMPP (PHP 8.2) on Windows 11 and Mac Sequoia.

STEP 1: Editing Configs

Open php.ini by clicking Config button on the Xampp control panel

In this ini file semi colon (;) is used to comment a line. We want to use openssl library, so we have to make sure the line for openssl is not commented.

Remove semi colon (;) in front of this line, if there is any:

Change default Mac OS X PHP to XAMPP's PHP Installation and Install Composer

Find out what version of PHP is running

which php

This will output the path to the default PHP install which comes preinstalled by Mac OS X, by default

	<?php
	/**
	* simple method to encrypt or decrypt a plain text string
	* initialization vector(IV) has to be the same when encrypting and decrypting
	*
	* @param string $action: can be 'encrypt' or 'decrypt'
	* @param string $string: string to encrypt or decrypt
	*
	* @return string
	*/