How do I upgrade php on openSuse?

Question

I'm currently running openSuse 12.1 with php 5.3.8 and would like to upgrade to 5.4. How may I do this? I'm used to just installing software packages with yast.

Solution

If there is no package you can compile your own php

1. Download php, extract it and cd into the directory
2. ./configure - add options you need and do not forget --with-apxs2. It will compile the module for apache. (You can check the currunt options used to compile php in phpinfo()). You can see the help and options with ./configure --help
3. make - this will compile the php
4. make install - this will install the php

Comments

[Isius]

Ok, did that, compiled and installed correctly. I restarted Apache but phpinfo still reports the old version.

[botzko]

Yes default location is /usr/local. You must load the new php module in apache. Search for something like this LoadModule php5_module lib64/httpd/modules/libphp5.so in apache configuration. You must change the path to the new module or just replace the old module by copy new one in the same dir.

[Isius]

No new module is created though. As in there are no .so files other than the 5.3 version.

[botzko]

You must use --with-apxs2=FILE when you compile the php, like this: ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql ......

[thinice]

apxs2 comes from apache2-prefork-dev (that is on debian, it's from dev headers for your mpm you chose). You can save yourself hassle by doing: ` ./configure --with-apxs2=which apxs2 --prefix=/usr --with--[etc etc]`