Ubuntu – PHP 5.3.1 on CentOS 5.3 Or Ubuntu 8.04 / 9.10

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Forgive me for such a newbie question, but in CentOS 5.3 or Ubuntu 8.04 / 9.10 what is the easiest way to install (and keep updated) PHP 5.3[.1] via yum or apt-get, respectively?

Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

Zend, who are the commercial entity behind PHP, have a set of yum/apt repositories that you can use to install and update PHP 5.3 on both Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS.

There is a community edition that can be used however you like at no cost, although not all components are open source ("free as in beer" only).

To install you would add a Zend.repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d (or edit /apt/sources.list) and then do

yum install zend-server-ce-php-5.3

or

apt-get update
apt-get install zend-server-ce-php-5.3

Full instructions are at Choosing Which Distribution to Install

It includes an opcode cache (Zend Optimizer+) and a debugger (Zend Debugger) although these are perhaps not as widely used as APC or Xdebug, possibly because they are not open source.

It also includes Zend Framework and various extensions such as the php-java bridge, database drivers (not all of which are included in the normal PHP distributions) and a web-based management console.

There is also a commercial version which includes support and additional features.

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