Symfony 2: Install and enable the intl extension

Question

I'm using XAMPP for Windows and decided to try out Symfony 2.

As soon as I get to Symfony Configuration page it recommends me to install and enable intl.

I tried reading PEAR's and PECL's guides, since I'm total 0 on this topic(started learning PHP recently), but nothing worked.

I found php_intl.dll inside my C:\xamp\php\ext. The php.ini's extension_dir= is set to "C:\xampp\php\ext". I was only missing the extension=php_intl.dll inside php.ini, so I added it.

Unfortunately it didn't work, and Symfony keeps asking me for intl.

Answer 1

Follow these steps:

1. Copy all the file names starting with "icu" from C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12 and paste to C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin (I am using WAMP. Figure it out yourself for XAMP.)

You can try. Nothing will harm. If you feel the things are not working, you can delete them. I am sure it will work for you 100%.

2. Uncomment the following line on C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\php.ini

   extension=php_intl.dll
   

It will work.

Answer 2

http://php.net/manual/en/intl.requirements.php

This extension is bundled with PHP as of PHP version 5.3.0. Alternatively, the PECL version of this extension may be used with all PHP versions greater than 5.2.0 (5.2.4+ recommended).

also read my comment to your post above

Answer 3

Whenever you make changes to php.ini, remember to restart Apache. Otherwise the changes won't take effect. You can do this in the XAMPP Control Panel by clicking the stop/start button in the Apache module row.

Answer 4

For Linux users: Installing php5-intl made it work for me

sudo apt-get install php5-intl

found here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/intl.setup.php