Intl extension is missing ( downloading FOSUSER Bundle)

Question

I m trying to download the FOSUSERBundle , when I execute this cmd :

php composer.phar require friendsofsymfony/user-bundle '~2.0@dev'

it gaves me this error :

 - symfony/icu v1.2.2 requires ext-intl * -> the requested PHP extension intl is missing from your system.
    - symfony/icu v1.2.2 requires lib-icu >=4.4 -> the requested linked library icu has the wrong version installed or is missing from your system, make sure to have the extension providing it.
    - Installation request for symfony/icu == 1.2.2.0 -> satisfiable by symfony/icu[v1.2.2].

Trying to solve this problem :

1 - I edited /etc/php.ini by uncommenting this line : extension=php_intl.dll 2- I downloaded the last stable version of php curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6 curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6 the problem still here ,and when I execute php -i the first line is :

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/php_intl.dll' - dlopen(/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/php_intl.dll, 9): image not found in Unknown on line 0
phpinfo()

Is there any thing that I can do to solve this problem ? or to downoald FOSUSERBundle Syfony without this ?

Answer 1

There is a good guide in the Intl Component docs about why you get this error and how to solve it.

You need to install php_intl on your system. Check out this guide for Mac OSX. Make sure you install the correct version of the symfony/icu afterwards:

• 1.0.*: when the intl extension is not available
• 1.1.*: when intl is compiled with ICU 3.8 or higher
• 1.2.*: when intl is compiled with ICU 4.4 or higher

This has been a problem for many symfony2 users over the past years. Basically there is a Symfony2 implementation of the php_intl extension that will replace the module in near future. Check out this blog post for further details . Because the change is very significant it will be also merged into the 2.3 and 2.5 branches of Symfony2 as well as the master / 2.6 version. It has not been tagged yet but should come available soon.

Edit: as of October 24, 2014 the new versions are tagged and this issue should be gone forever!