Upgrading to PHP 7 from PHP 5 on CentOS 7
Install EPEL and Remi Repositories:
# yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
Install the yum-config-manager:
# yum install yum-utils
Enable the latest php version, latest version as of this writing:
# yum-config-manager –enable remi-php73
Install PHP 7 with all necessary modules:
# yum install php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-fileinfo
Check php version:
# php -v