Upgrading PHP in CentOS 5

CentOS 5.x comes with PHP 5.1, this version is outdated and you probably would want to upgrade it. I used Atomic repository.

You can add it by running following command:

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh

Now you can update PHP:

yum update php

yum update php-mcrypt

(you might also need to update mysql)

Verify version of running PHP:

php -v

And that all modules working as order:

php -m

Restart Apache, you are all set.

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