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laravel/installer v2.3.0 requires ext-zip * -> the requested PHP extension zip is missing from your system.

After fiddling with MAMP and its installation of PHP as global for scripts in terminal/console for hours I gave up with the somehow logic instructions for MAMP installations, as I was unable to upgrade the laravel/installer.

https://gist.github.com/yehgdotnet/fd9b86a08c5e0c03fa57ad3ae8217892

# install dependencies
brew install autoconf # required by pecl 
brew install libzip


# install zip extenion in your selected MAMP PHP version 
ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/
cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php[Version]bin
pecl install zip

# edit php.ini in your selected MAMP PHP version 
ls /Applications/MAMP/conf/p*
cd /Applications/MAMP/conf/php7.3.8/ 
echo "extension=zip" >> php.ini

What worked for me was to install PHP on my macos with HomeBrew and link/add it to the $PATH.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58290566/install-ext-zip-for-mac/58300437#58300437

brew update
brew install php@7.3
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/bin:$PATH"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.3/sbin:$PATH"' >> .bash_profile
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Exception has occurred. Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException: The payload is invalid.

Restarted an older project in Laravel. To my surprise there were no major headaches.

Just the time to setup my new favorite tool: Visual Studio Code. A great way to develop and debug for PHP inside or outside of containers.

Just in the middle of the first debug session Laravel drops an error: Exception has occurred. Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException: The payload is invalid.

A quick google finds out the page on: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47355311/laravel-5-with-xdebug-always-throws-the-payload-is-invalid

Tried both methods and both work.

The correct solution is to just add the “XDEBUG_SESSION” cookie to the exceptions array in the App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies middleware.

/**
 * The names of the cookies that should not be encrypted.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $except = [
    'XDEBUG_SESSION'
];

But I preffer:

If the answer doesn’t work, try adding this into launch.json

{
        "name": "Listen for XDebug",
        "type": "php",
        "request": "launch",
        "port": 9001,
        "ignore": [
            "**/vendor/**/*.php"
        ]
    },

Because that way the Xdebug cookie exception does not make it to the production app and security is maintained.