CakePHP 3.0 installation: intl extension missing from system

I faced the same problem today. You need to enable the intl PHP extension in your PHP configuration (.ini).

Solution Xampp (Windows)

  1. Open /xampp/php/php.ini
  2. Change ;extension=php_intl.dll to extension=php_intl.dll (remove the semicolon)
  3. Copy all the /xampp/php/ic*.dll files to /xampp/apache/bin
  4. Restart apache in the Xampp control panel

Solution Linux (thanks to Annamalai Somasundaram)

  1. Install the php5-intl extension sudo apt-get install php5-intl

    1.1. Alternatively use sudo yum install php5-intl if you are on CentOS or Fedora.

  2. Restart apache sudo service apache2 restart

Solution Mac/OSX (homebrew) (thanks to deizel)

  1. Install the php5-intl extension brew install php56-intl
  2. If you get No available formula for php56-intl follow these instructions.
  3. Restart apache sudo apachectl restart

Eventually you can run composer install to check if it's working. It will give an error if it's not.


I faced the same issue in ubuntu 12.04

Installed: sudo apt-get install php5-intl

Restarted the Apache: sudo service apache2 restart


OS X Homebrew (May 2015):

The intl extension has been removed from the main php5x formulas, so you no longer compile with the --enable-intl flag.

If you can't find the new package:

$ brew install php56-intl
Error: No available formula for php56-intl

Follow these instructions: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php/issues/1701

$ brew install php56-intl
==> Installing php56-intl from homebrew/homebrew-php