Installing PHP 5.6 in Centos6/7

Compiling php can be difficult some time. But We can just install the latest version of php from proper remi repo.

Install Remi repository

CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)
Remi and EPEL (Dependency) on CentOS 7 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7

64 bit : yum install -y http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm
yum install -y http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm


Remi and Epel repo ( Dependency ) on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6
64 bit  : yum install -y http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
32 bit  : yum install -yhttp://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install -y http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm


Installing PHP5.6 from the remi and httpd from local repo
CentOS 7/6.5/5.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.5/5.10
yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php56 install httpd php php-common

Install PHP 5.6.0 modules

yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php56 install php-pecl-apcu php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

Start Apache HTTP server (httpd) and autostart Apache HTTP server (httpd) on boot
## CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
systemctl start httpd.service ## use restart after update


## CentOS / RHEL 6.5/5.10 ##
/etc/init.d/httpd start ## use restart after update
## OR ##
service httpd start ## use restart after update


##CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
systemctl enable httpd.service

## CentOS / RHEL 6.5/5.10 ##
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on


Create test PHP page to check that Apache, PHP and PHP modules are working
Add following content to /var/www/html/test.php file.

<?php

    phpinfo();
?>

Now Check the PHp page at http://<<SERVER_IP>>/test.php

Make sure that the EPEL and Remi repo's are disabled to avoid Further issue in future.

Module Available in Latest PHP

bcmath

bz2

calendar

com_dotnet

ctype

curl

date

dba

dom

enchant

ereg

exif

fileinfo

filter

ftp

gd

gettext

gmp

hash

iconv

imap

interbase

intl

json

ldap

libxml

mbstring

mcrypt

mssql

mysql

mysqli

mysqlnd

oci8

odbc

opcache

openssl

pcntl

pcre

pdo

pdo_dblib

pdo_firebird

pdo_mysql

pdo_oci

pdo_odbc

pdo_pgsql

pdo_sqlite

pgsql

phar

posix

pspell

readline

recode

reflection

session

shmop

simplexml

skeleton

snmp

soap

sockets

spl

sqlite3

standard

sybase_ct

sysvmsg

sysvsem

sysvshm

tidy

tokenizer

wddx

xml

xmlreader

xmlrpc

xmlwriter

xsl

zip

zlib