How To Install PHP 8.1 on CentOS 7

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What’s New in PHP 8.1?

Enums have been integrated
Readonly properties (Class properties can be marked as read-only and thus can only be written once.
Never keyword (A new return type hint named Never was added in PHP 8.1)
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) support.
Support AVIF Image format.
Added support for Fibers (Low-level mechanism for parallel management).
The PHP Curl extension now supports HTTP(S) requests with File upload.
Support for new fdatasync() and fsync() functions.
PHP 8.1 adds array_is_list as a built-in function.
Speed efficiency improved from 5% to 8% compared to the old version
Unpack the array using string keys.

Step 1: Add EPEL and REMI Repository
Run the commands below to add required repositories.

yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum -y install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Step 2: Install PHP 8.1 on CentOS 7

yum -y install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php81

Use the next command to install additional packages:

yum install php-xxx

// Example

yum install php  php-cli php-fpm php-mysqlnd php-zip php-devel php-gd php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-json

The current PHP version should be 8.1.

php -v
Now you have PHP 8.1

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