PHP 5.4 on Centos/rhel 7.0, 6.5 and 5.10 via Yum

PHP 5.4.36 have been released on Php.net on 18th December, and are also available for Centos/rhel 5.10 and 6.5 at WEBTA Tic via Yum.

Update 2013-07-21–a New Package ' PHP54W-MYSQLND ' has been added as a alternative to "Php54w-mysql". This would instead provide MySQL, mysqli, and Pdo_mysql built against the PHP MySQL native driver rather than the system de Fault Libmysqlclient. It'll replace "Php54w-mysql55″, as it'll work with MySQL 5.0/5.1/5.5 server)
Update 2013-06-20–webtatic now have released PHP 5.5.0 for Centos/rhel 5 and 6
Update 2013-05-26–centos/rhel 5.x now supported.
Update 2013-05-18–a New Package ' Php54w-pecl-zendopcache ' has been added, Zend Optimizer Plus opcode cache.
Update 2012-08-26–APC is stable enough now and so the extension have been added
Update 2012-07-22–memcache and Xdebug extensions have been added
Update 2012-04-29–mcrypt, Tidy, MSSQL, InterBase has been added back on to the repository.

PHP 5.4.0 adds new features such as:

• Traits
• Built-in Web server
• Array Short notation
• Array return value de-referencing
• Finally killing off Magic-quotes and Safe-mode

To see what else have been added, check out the changelog.

To install, first you must add the Webtatic EL yum repository information corresponding to your Centos/rhel version to Yum :

Centos/rhel 7.x:

RPM-UVH HTTPS://MIRROR.WEBTATIC.COM/YUM/EL7/EPEL-RELEASE.RPMRPM-UVH https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/ webtatic-release.rpm

Centos/rhel 6.x:

RPM-UVH https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

Centos/rhel 5.x:

RPM-UVH https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm

Now the can install PHP by doing:

Yum Install php54w

If you would like to upgrade PHP to this version it's recommended that check that your system would support the Upgrad E, e.g. making sure any Cpanel-like software can run after the upgrade.

Unless you know doing, it's risky upgrading an existing system. It's much safer to does this by provisioning a separate server to perform the upgrade as a fresh install instead.

If you know what is doing, you can upgrade PHP by:

Yum install yum-plugin-replace yum replace Php-common--replace-with=php54w-common

It'll likely give you a message "warning:unable-Resolve all providers ...". This is normal, and you can continue by tying "Y". You'll be given a chance to see what packages'll be installed and removed before again being given a chance to confirm .

Packages Package

	provides
php54w	mod_php, Php54w-zts
Php54w-bcmath
Php54w-cli	php-cgi, Php-pcntl, Php-readline
Php54w-common	Php-api, php-bz2, Php-calendar, Php-ctype, Php-curl, Php-date, Php-exif, Php-fileinfo, 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
Php54w-dba
Php54w-devel
php54w-embedded	Php-embedded-devel
Php54w-enchant
php54w-fpm
Php54w-gd
Php54w-imap
Php54w-interbase	Php_database, Php-firebird
Php54w-intl
Php54w-ldap
Php54w-mbstring
Php54w-mcrypt
Php54w-mssql
Php54w-mysql	Php-mysqli, Php_database
Php54w-mysqlnd	Php-mysqli, Php_database
Php54w-odbc	PHP-PDO_ODBC, Php_database
Php54w-pdo
Php54w-pecl-apc
Php54w-pecl-gearman
Php54w-pecl-geoip
Php54w-pecl-memcache
Php54w-pecl-zendopcache
Php54w-pecl-xdebug
Php54w-pgsql	Php-pdo_pgsql, Php_database
Php54w-process	Php-posix, Php-sysvmsg, Php-sysvsem, PHP-SYSVSHM
Php54w-pspell
Php54w-recode
Php54w-snmp
Php54w-soap
Php54w-tidy
Php54w-xml	Php-dom, Php-domxml, PHP-WDDX, php-xsl
Php54w-xmlrpc

Opcode Caches

A Precompiled PHP APC package was available as an opcode cache, which was recommended for performance reasons. It can be installed via:

Yum Install PHP54W-PECL-APC

Zend has now released Zend Optimizer Plus opcode cache as open source, and are now known as Zend Opcache. As it ' s more actively maintained than APC, it had been added as a package to the Webtatic EL6 repository. It can be installed via:

Yum Install Php54w-pecl-zendopcache

Error_reporting E_all now includes e_strict

You could get a lot more errors coming out of your error logs if by default your error_reporting are set to E_all now without Explicitly turning off e_strict. The default php.ini that comes with the PHP package turns this off by default, but if your is upgrading from an existing I Nstallation, your php.ini May is updated, meaning this would likely be turned on.

https://webtatic.com/packages/php54/

PHP 5.4 on Centos/rhel 7.0, 6.5 and 5.10 via Yum