PHP 7.2 is the latest stable release of PHP. May of popular yum repositories are providing rpm packages for PHP 7. This article is using Remi and EPEL yum repositories for installing required packages on your system. This article will help you to install PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1 on CentOS & Red Hat 7.4 & 6.9 servers. This tutorial has been tested with CentOS 7.4.
Configure Yum Repository
First of all, you need to enable Remi and EPEL yum repositories on your system. Use the following command to install EPEL repository on your CentOS and Red Hat 7/6 systems
Use this command to install epel-release yum repository
yum install epel-release
and now execute one of the following commands as per your operating system version to install Remi repository.
### For CentOS/RHEL - 7 rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm ### For CentOS/RHEL - 6 rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Install PHP 7.2
Use the following command to install PHP 7.2 on your CentOS system. This will enable remi-php72 yum repository and install the required packages.
yum --enablerepo=remi-php72 install php
Now use the following command to check installed PHP version on your system.
php -v PHP 7.2.7 (cli) (built: Jun 20 2018 08:21:26) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Install PHP 7.1
Use the following command to install PHP 7.1 on your CentOS system. This will enable remi-php71 yum repository and install the required packages.
yum --enablerepo=remi-php71 install php
Now use the following command to check installed PHP version on your system.
php -v PHP 7.1.19 (cli) (built: Jun 21 2018 07:18:00) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Install PHP Modules
You may also need to install additional PHP modules based on your application requirements. Below command will install some more useful PHP modules.
### For PHP 7.2 yum --enablerepo=remi-php72 install php-xml php-soap php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-json php-gd php-mcrypt ### For PHP 7.1 yum --enablerepo=remi-php71 install php-xml php-soap php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-json php-gd php-mcrypt
To find out other available PHP modules use the following command. Change the PHP version to search packages for different PHP version.
yum --enablerepo=remi-php72 search php | grep php72 php72.x86_64 : Package that installs PHP 7.2 php72-php.x86_64 : PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites php72-php-bcmath.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications for using the bcmath php72-php-brotli.x86_64 : Brotli Extension for PHP php72-php-cli.x86_64 : Command-line interface for PHP php72-php-common.x86_64 : Common files for PHP php72-php-dba.x86_64 : A database abstraction layer module for PHP applications php72-php-dbg.x86_64 : The interactive PHP debugger php72-php-devel.x86_64 : Files needed for building PHP extensions php72-php-embedded.x86_64 : PHP library for embedding in applications php72-php-enchant.x86_64 : Enchant spelling extension for PHP applications php72-php-fpm.x86_64 : PHP FastCGI Process Manager php72-php-gd.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications for using the gd graphics php72-php-geos.x86_64 : PHP module for GEOS php72-php-gmp.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications for using the GNU MP php72-php-imap.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use IMAP php72-php-interbase.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use php72-php-intl.x86_64 : Internationalization extension for PHP applications php72-php-json.x86_64 : JavaScript Object Notation extension for PHP php72-php-ldap.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use LDAP php72-php-libvirt.x86_64 : PHP language binding for Libvirt php72-php-libvirt-doc.noarch : Document of php-libvirt php72-php-litespeed.x86_64 : LiteSpeed Web Server PHP support php72-php-lz4.x86_64 : LZ4 Extension for PHP php72-php-mbstring.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications which need multi-byte php72-php-mysqlnd.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use MySQL php72-php-oci8.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use OCI8 databases php72-php-odbc.x86_64 : A module for PHP applications that use ODBC databases php72-php-pdo.x86_64 : A database access abstraction module for PHP applications