How to add a more recent version of PHP?

Hi there everyone!
I found this tutorial on adding 5.6 to your Debian 7 install but I would assume that some (maybe a lot) has changed in two major versions for both Deb and PHP.

Is there a tutorial on how to add a later PHP version to ISPC 3.1.12 on Debian 9?

Thanks for your time!

 

You can use this:
https://github.com/SergiX44/ISPC-PHPCompiler
Then add the PHP version in ISPconfig System / Additional PHP versions

 

Thanks very much, elmacus. I'm in the middle of running the script and have come to a screen requesting that I select an FPM port for php72:



I searched but didn't find a preferred port(9000 was mentioned a lot, however). Is there anything in particular I should enter?

 

Thank you! I set it at 8999. I swapped the PHP version for the site in ISPC but the version shows the same in PHPInfo so I'm assuming that I need to restart the services but I don't see a way to restart them in ISPC. I just see a page showing what services are activated for that server:

111.111.111.111 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No

Am I supposed to uncheck services (like web), save, recheck and save to restart them or is there another page I should be at for this?

Or does ISPC not handle service restarts?

 

Thank you very much, I see that it did show the change in PHP after another refresh. I've stumbled into another issue, however. It seems that the new PHP version is pretty bare bones and does not have the modules I need. As an example, 7.2 shows that I'm lacking the module intl. I used apt to install php-intl and it installed successfully but the 7.2 version still does not show as having it enabled. The ISPC included 7.0.27 doesn't show this warning, so it seems that I might need to do something to get my 7.2 install to load these.

Could you tell me what I need to do to include these modules with my 7.2 install?

 

Find out the names of needed packages. Then apt-get install them. You can look up what php packages for php 7.0 are installed, and install the same for php 7.2. The package names may have changed, though.

 

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I did try installing the modules I needed via apt and I did a service apache2 restart but the modules still show as missing. php7.0-intl was already installed and I installed php-intl. In spite of both of these being installed, it's still non-existent to 7.2.6.

 

So I found the following in 7.2.6's ini:

Code:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following syntax:
;
;   extension=modulename
;
; For example:
;
;   extension=mysqli
;
; When the extension library to load is not located in the default extension
; directory, You may specify an absolute path to the library file:
;
;   extension=/path/to/extension/mysqli.so
;
;extension=intl

So I uncommented that and restarted Apache. Script still didn't find it.

So I did a find in an effort to locate where intl.so resides. I found a copy here: /usr/lib/php/20151012/intl.so

So I altered php.ini to reflect this:

Code:

extension=/usr/lib/php/20151012/intl.so

and restarted Apache. The script still did not recognize it as a satisfied dependency.

I'm not sure how else to resolve this issue Any assistance would be most welcome!

 

As dicussed in here, you should know what are the difference and the location (path) between your compiled php and installed php (default or ondrej sury version).

Normally, compiled php is in the /opt folder so its php.ini and extension should be in there too. Other than that each php version got its own date style folder so your compiled php7.2 shouldn't be using /usr/ folder or /20151012/ folder in it.

The easiest way for most new users is to use Ondrej Sury version of compiled php as stated by @Jesse Norell above.

 

Unfortunately, the easiest way uses Debian's repository which means you're only going to get 7.1 from it. Since I'd like to have 7.2, I'm better off sticking with what I have.

I'm pretty sure I refuse to believe that it's not possible to add modules to this PHP install. That wouldn't make any sense at all.

 

From my readings elsewhere, (here, here and there) though the referred tutorial above did not mentioned php7.2 packages, they should already be available under that repo and easily be installed from it.

And I didn't say that you cannot add any extensions or modules to compiled php, but you have to do it right for them to work properly.

 

The links you posted all involve adding other unofficial repos to install the version of PHP. Also, as instructed in some of the linked articles, the intention is to replace the included version of PHP.

I'm going to do a bit more research on the matter before I go around installing additional PHP versions. I'm clearly missing something when it comes to understanding this. I've got an installed version of 7.2 and I just don't understand how it could be easier to install other versions of the same 7.2 and not enable or add a module to the one I've got installed.

Thanks so much for your thoughts on the matter, I greatly appreciate it!

 

Hi there Jesse, and thanks very much for taking the time to help.

I also came to realize that it needed to be compiled with the needed module so I opened an issue with the developer of the PHP install script to see if they could help me figure out how to get the intl module included in the install.