PHP 7
(2021-02-23)
Installing PHP 7
Older information
(2017-09-13)
CentOS 7 provides PHP version 5.4 in its official repository.
Command to install the Remi repository configuration package:
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
Command to install the yum-utils package (for the yum-config-manager command):
yum install yum-utils
You want a single version which means replacing base packages from the distribution
Packages have the same name than the base repository, ie php-*
PHP version 7.1 packages are available for CentOS 7 in remi-php71 repository
Command to enable the repository:
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71
Command to upgrade (the repository only provides PHP):
yum update