How to install php-mcrypt on CentOS 6

Introduction

After installing tools like phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6, you see the following warning:

The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

Here's a quick guide to fix it.

You will need EPEL repo to install php-mcrypt:

yum -y install http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm

yum -y install php-mcrypt

Here is the code for installing EPEL repository on CentOS 6:

rpm -Uvh http://fedora.mirrors.pair.com/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm