Upgrading PHP on CentOS 6.5 (Final)

Question

I'm trying to update my PHP (currently v:5.3.3 to the latest stable PHP build) but it's not playing ball and it's saying there is nothing to update.

Any help would be useful.

Keeps saying:

No Packages marked for Update

Answer 1

As Jacob mentioned, the CentOS packages repo appears to only have PHP 5.3 available at the moment. But these commands seemed to work for me...

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm yum remove php-common       # Need to remove this, otherwise it conflicts yum install php56w yum install php56w-mysql yum install php56w-common yum install php56w-pdo yum install php56w-opcache php --version               # Verify version has been upgraded 

You can alternatively use php54w or php55w if required.

CAUTION!
This may potentially break your website if it doesn't fully resolve all your dependencies, so you may need a couple of extra packages in some cases. See here for a list of other PHP 5.6 modules that are available.

If you encounter a problem and need to reset back to the default, you can use these commands:

sudo yum remove php56w sudo yum remove php56w-common sudo yum install php-common sudo yum install php-mysql sudo yum install php 

(Thanks Fabrizio Bartolomucci)