Im trying to edit a web app on my local host and I am getting the following error: Call to undefined function imap_open()
I believe this is because I may not have imap installed or activated on my localhost. I am currently running Mac OS Sierra and MAMP (not MAMP Pro)
I find some things online for older versions of Mac OS or using Brew but I don't use brew, is this necessary to get imap working on my setup? Can someone help me so I don't run into these imap issues?
I also had extension=imap.so set in the PHP.ini file, but IMAP still wasn't supported. I finally found what worked for me and hopefully will for your situation as well.
The next thing to make sure of is that extension_dir is correctly set in the same PHP.ini file. Mine was set to MAMP_extension_dir_MAMP. I didn't see where this variable was set. I replaced it with "/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.29/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/" and now when I look up phpinfo() page I see that IMAP is enabled.
replace php5.3.29 with your php version and no-debug-non-zts-20090626 with whatever folder name you see in the extensions folder.
It's an old question but this might help someone.
use <?php phpinfo(); ?> to checkout if the following files
point to the same path. Also the php.ini has the line of extension=imap.so uncommented. And finally, in the Additional .ini fields parsed you should see the IMAP location, if there is nothing there, it means that php isn't loading the IMAP.
In my case I run this in the terminal to fix it:
brew tap kabel/php-ext
brew install php-imap
brew install php@7.1-imap