Installing php5.6 on CentOS

Configuring the Yum Source

Additional CentOS 6.5 Epel and Remi sources are added.

# RPM-UVH http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm# RPM-UVH/http rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

The following is the source for CentOS 7.0.

# yum Install epel-release# RPM-IVH http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Use the Yum List command to view the installable packages (Packege).

# Yum List--enablerepo=remi--enablerepo=remi-php56 | grep php

Installing PHP5.6

The Yum source is configured, and the next step is to install PHP5.6.

# yum Install--enablerepo=remi--enablerepo=remi-php56 php php-opcache php-devel php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysqlnd php -phpunit-phpunit Php-pecl-xdebug Php-pecl-xhprof

Use the PHP command to view the version.

# php--versionphp 5.6.0 (CLI) (Built:sep  3 19:51:31) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 the PHP groupzend Engine v2.6.0, Co Pyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies with    Zend opcache V7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
   with Xdebug v2.2.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Derick Rethans

The version installed here is PHP5.6.0, and attentive users may have found Zendguardloader into Zend Opcahe.

The PHP code cache starting from PHP5.5 became the Zend Opcache from APC.

Installing php5.6 on CentOS