Upgrading from php5.6 to php7

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 6, 2017 at 1:31:59 PM -0800 Orion Tiller 
<orion at blackboxconsortium.com> wrote:

>> I need to upgrade from php 5.6 to php 7.0.
>> Can someone tell me how I can do that best? Read a lot of solutionson
>> the web, but all tell different from each other.
>>
>> Would it be better to first deinstall php 5.6 and then start all over
>> with php7?
>>
>> Thanks, Jos
>>
>>
> Yes doing it that way has worked for me. 
>
> $ pkg remove php56
>
> If you are going to need the pecl-redis extension you will need to
> compile it for php7.0 from ports otherwise pkg will try to remove 7 and
> reinstall 5.6
> I know this works for 7.1 but I have never done this with 7.0 but it
> should be the same.
>
>     //pecl-redis workaround for PHP 7.0
>     $ echo DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=php=7.0 >> /etc/make.conf
>     $ cd /usr/ports/databases/pecl-redis/
>     $ make install clean
>     $ pkg lock pecl-redis
>
> then install 7.0 and any other extensions you will need
>
>     $ pkg install php70

I ran portmaster -o lang/php71 lang/php56. Then portmaster -R -r lang/php71

Worked fine. Make sure you aren't specifying php56 in /etc/make.conf.

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