PHP

Features

• Currently using the 5.3.x branch
• Uses the internal PCRE library, with extended UTF-8 support
• Linked against the Mysql 5.1,
• Based on the Fedora design and includes the following core modules:
  • php-bcmath: support for using the bcmath library
  • php-cli: the command line and cgi interface for PHP
  • php-common: files used by both the php package and the php-cli package
  • php-dba: support for using the DBA database abstraction layer to PHP
  • php-devel: files needed for building PHP extensions
  • php-embedded: library which can be embedded into applications to provide PHP scripting
  • php-enchant: Enchant library support
  • php-gd: support for using the gd graphics library
  • php-imap: IMAP support
  • php-ldap: LDAP support
  • php-mbstring: multi-byte string handling
  • php-mcrypt: mcrypt support
  • php-mssql: Microsoft SQL server support
  • php-mysql: mysql, mysqlng, and mysqli database modules
  • php-ncurses: ncurses library support
  • php-odbc: ODBC support
  • php-pdo: database access abstraction layer to PHP. This module provides a common interface for accessing MySQL, PostgreSQL or other databases
  • php-pgsql: postgres support
  • php-process: system interfaces for inter-process communication
  • php-pspell: pspell library support
  • php-recode: recode library support
  • php-snmp: SNMP support
  • php-soap: SOAP web services protocol support
  • php-sqlite: extension for the SQLite V2 Embeddable SQL Database Engine
  • php-tidy: tidy library support
  • php-xml: support manipulating XML documents using the DOM tree, and performing XSL transformations on XML documents.
  • php-xmlrpc: support for the XML-RPC protocol to PHP
  • php-zts: Module for Apache HTTP Server which can operate under a threaded server processing model
• Additional modules:
  • php-ioncube-loader
  • php-suhosin
  • php-eaccelerator:

Installation

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To upgrade to PHP 5.3.x on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora:

Step 1) Set up the atomic channel:

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

Step 2) Upgrade to PHP 5.3.x:

yum upgrade

Step 3) Replace the PHP 4 php.ini with PHP 5.3.x's (if applicable):

mv /etc/php.ini.rpmnew /etc/php.ini

Step 4) Replace the php.conf with the PHP 5.3.x php.conf (if applicable):

mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf.rpmnew /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

Step 5) Restart the webserver

service httpd restart
(or)
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Checklist

1) Source code installations of extensions, like Ioncube loader, or other extensions that have to be updated. Ive created php-ioncube-loader, php-zend-optimizer, and php-eaccelerator packages to fix this for you automatically.

2) php.ini settings, like memory_limit

3) execstack -c on any extensions that claim to need an executible stack (ASL users only).

FAQ

Q: Application reports a mysql mismatch between the installed mysql and the version php uses.

A: This is not an error. As stated in the features above PHP is linked against the native vendor distributed version of mysql, this prevents a condition where PHP upgrades also force Mysql upgrades. Applications reporting this as an error are incorrect. Asking this question in forums makes us a Sad Panda that you do not read our FAQ. *insert sad panda emoticon here*