I am trying to get a new install of Laravel to work (OS X 10.9) with MAMP. It gives the usual

Generating autoload files
Mcrypt PHP extension required.
Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-update-cmd event returned with an error

So my autoload files are not being generated. I am in zsh, if I put in 'which php' it returns

php: aliased to /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/bin/php

If I input 'php -i' from the console I see that mcrypt is running. Does the above not indicate that it is using the correct MAMP path for php and that mcrypt should be avaiable? How can I get this to run without a mcrypt error WITH MAMP.