It looks like you are downloading an old version of Laravel (v5.0.9). Also I'm not sure if this project is PHP 7 compatible.
Anyway you can install mcrypt for php7 on mac like so
brew install php70-mcrypt
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Newbie here, Using macOS Sierra This has been the second time I downloaded a laravel project from github which I tried to run php artisan serve and get the response Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in ... Downloads/quiz-master/bootstrap/app.php on line 14
I have googled and tried composer dump-autoload and tried deleting the composer.lock and vendor folder and retried php artisan serve but still getting the error
I tries composer install but I get
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1 - laravel/framework v5.0.9 requires ext-mcrypt * -> the requested PHP extension mcrypt is missing from your system.
I'm not sue if I need to install mcrypt(which i dont know how to on php 7) or if there is just something simpler i need to fix
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