Why is mcrypt not working on Xampp?

Question

PHP

Hello. I decided to install yii2 advanced and ran into a problem when

php init

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mcrypt_create_iv() in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/test.dev/init on line 190

But this results in absurd nonsense:
xammp/phpinfo

mcrypt support:enabled

everything works, but does not want to see it point-blank.
I do

which php

in terminal - replies:

/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/php

what to do?

Answer 1

so. in php.ini uncommented the line?