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How do I execute my .php files as PHP 5?

You have three options if you want .php files to run as PHP 5:

Toggle your account's default PHP to be PHP 5

Specify an interpreter in the files needing to run as PHP 5

Rename specific .php files to end in .php5

If you want to globally change your whole account to run all .php scripts using PHP5 you need to either:

Use the toggle in the PHP Configurator

Open a shell to your account

Type:
rm /sitebin/php ln -s /usr/local/bin/php5 /sitebin/php

Note that you can switch back to PHP 4 by following the same procedure, but using usr/local/bin/php4 instead of /usr/local/bin/php5

To specify an interpreter, you need do the following:

Run the following shell command on the .php file:
chmod +x myphpfile.php
For more information about how to get a command prompt for your server go here.

Now add the following code to the first line of the file (not within your PHP tags):
#!/usr/local/bin/php5
This is a switch that forces PHP 5 to parse the php script.

Again, if PHP 5 is your default, use /usr/local/bin/php4 instead of /usr/local/bin/php5

Those that rename files from *.php to *.php5, that is all you need to do. If you have switched your account to use PHP 5 by default, you may rename files to be *.php4 to force those files to use PHP 4.

For more information on PHP 5 go here.

User-Contributed Notes

anonymous -at- example.com
07-Mar-2006 10:15

If you have a bunch of files you want to rename with a different
extension (for example, *.php => *.php5), this is a helpful article for
doing so:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/150

anonymous -at- example.com
21-Feb-2007 14:29

PHP 5.2.0 - Manual config gotchas. (updated 2007-04-26)


rm /sitebin/php
ln -s /usr/local/bin/php-5.2.0 /sitebin/php

mkdir /etc/php5 in your shared account
cp /etc/php.ini /etc/php5/

vim /etc/php5/php.ini
add the following values for specified php configuration options: 

include_path  = ".:/usr/local/lib/php-5.2.0" 
extension_dir = /usr/local/libexec/php-5.2.0   
zend_extension = /usr/local/libexec/php-5.2.0/ZendOptimizer.so  


this should get you a working 5.2.0 config.

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