Update Yum repos
For 32 bit CentOS-
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
For 64 bit CentOS-
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
Now it’s time to update our PHP to the latest one
yum –enablerepo=remi update php php-*
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
And that’s it!
You can check your installed PHP version executing:
php -v