Setting environment manually PHP 5.6 - CentOS

This article describes how to install PHP 5.6 on a CentOS 6 or CentOS 7 server

Access the terminal (as root) and run the commands below, according to the version of your system:

CentOS/RHEL 7.x:

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6.x:

rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

Installing PHP 5.6:

yum install php56w php56w-cli php56w-common php56w-devel php56w-mbstring php56w-pecl-imagick php56w-xml 

Enabling PHP extensions :

Firebird/Interbase:

yum install php56w-interbase

Ldap Module:

yum install php56w-ldap

GD Module:

yum install php56w-gd

MySQL:

yum install php56w-mysql php56w-mysqlnd

MSSQL Server:

yum install php56w-mssql

ODBC:

yum install php56w-odbc

PDO:

yum install php56w-pdo

PostgreSQL:

yum install php56w-pgsql

Restart apache:

service httpd restart