On older system that use still PHP 5.4 it could be necessary, especially if the web solution needs it, to upgrade it to PHP 5.6. Main features include in PHP 5.6.0:
- Constant scalar expressions.
- Exponentiation utilizing the ** operator.
- Function and constant importing with the utilization decisive word.
- phpdbg as an intuitive coordinated debugger SAPI.
- GMP questions now bolster operator over-burdening.
- Document transfers bigger than 2 gigabytes in size are presently acknowledged.
First we need to check the current version of PHP. To check the versio of PHP run following command:
php -v PHP 5.4.35 (cli) (built: Nov 14 2014 07:04:10) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies
To upgrade php, first you must include the Webtatic EL yum repository data relating to your CentOS/RHEL variant to yum:
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/epel-release.rpm
Check PHP list Packages:
yum list installed php
Remove all PHP Packages:
$ sudo yum remove php php-cli php-common php-gd php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pdo php-pear php-pecl-apc php-pecl-memcache php-pgsql php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc -y
Restart Apache web server daemon:
$ sudo service httpd restart
Install PHP 5.6.x:
sudo yum install php56w php56w-opcache -y
Install PHP 5.6.x Packages:
sudo yum install php56w-mcrypt php56w-intl php56w-odbc php56w-pdo php56w-pgsql php56w-soap php56w-xml php56w-gd php56w-mbstring -y
Install MySQL Modules:
sudo yum install php56w-mysqlnd
Check PHP Version again:
$ php --version PHP 5.6.21 (cli) (built: May 1 2016 11:06:02) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
For the full list of PHP 5.6.x packages, you can refer to the following table:
| Package | Provides |
|---|---|
| php56w | mod_php, php56w-zts |
| php56w-bcmath | |
| php56w-cli | php-cgi, php-pcntl, php-readline |
| php56w-common | php-api, php-bz2, php-calendar, php-ctype, php-curl, php-date, php-ereg, php-exif, php-fileinfo, php-filter, php-ftp, php-gettext, php-gmp, php-hash, php-iconv, php-json, php-libxml, php-openssl, php-pcre, php-pecl-Fileinfo, php-pecl-phar, php-pecl-zip, php-reflection, php-session, php-shmop, php-simplexml, php-sockets, php-spl, php-tokenizer, php-zend-abi, php-zip, php-zlib |
| php56w-dba | |
| php56w-devel | |
| php56w-embedded | php-embedded-devel |
| php56w-enchant | |
| php56w-fpm | |
| php56w-gd | |
| php56w-imap | |
| php56w-interbase | php_database, php-firebird |
| php56w-intl | |
| php56w-ldap | |
| php56w-mbstring | |
| php56w-mcrypt | |
| php56w-mssql | |
| php56w-mysql | php-mysqli, php_database |
| php56w-mysqlnd | php-mysqli, php_database |
| php56w-odbc | php-pdo_odbc, php_database |
| php56w-opcache | php56w-pecl-zendopcache |
| php56w-pdo | php56w-pdo_sqlite, php56w-sqlite3 |
| php56w-pear | |
| php56w-pecl-apcu | |
| php56w-pecl-gearman | |
| php56w-pecl-geoip | |
| php56w-pecl-imagick | |
| php56w-pecl-memcache | |
| php56w-pecl-memcached | |
| php56w-pecl-mongodb | |
| php56w-pecl-xdebug | |
| php56w-pgsql | php-pdo_pgsql, php_database |
| php56w-phpdbg | |
| php56w-process | php-posix, php-sysvmsg, php-sysvsem, php-sysvshm |
| php56w-pspell | |
| php56w-recode | |
| php56w-snmp | |
| php56w-soap | |
| php56w-tidy | |
| php56w-xml | php-dom, php-domxml, php-wddx, php-xsl |
| php56w-xmlrpc |
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