Instructions below to upgrade PHP to 5.3.5
Please note these are not the official packages, and have been put together by rpms.famillecollet.com/ for RHEL5 distributions (thank you!). I have rebuilt these so they install for ClearOS with the addition of two RPM's (libedit and sqlite2).
Thefore please consider these as beta / testing quality. WARNING: 5.3.x is not entirely backwards compatible with older versions of PHP. Therefore if your application / website / scripts do not specify compatibility then it may break!
If you are a website developer then you may want to review the changes between 5.2 and 5.3 here http://uk2.php.net/migration53
http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/howtos/adding_tim_s_repo
You can also install many other PHP features through YUM.
YUM install php-*
YUM list php-* for all the available app you can add.
I will assume you already have installed the repo (As above)
yum --enablerepo=timb-testing upgrade php service httpd restart php -v
Create a file called phpinfo.php in /var/www/html that looks like the following <HTML> <BODY> <?php phpinfo(); ?> </BODY> </HTML>
Point your browser at example.org/phpinfo.php
Enjoy!
Yum remove php-(Enter module to remove)