How to install PHP7 on linux

Step 1: Update the package list

Before starting to install PHP, we need to update the package list. We can use the following command:

sudo apt-get update

This command will check if you have the latest packages on your system. If new packages are available, it will download and install them to your system.

Step 2: Install PHP7

To install PHP 7 in linux, we need to use the following command:

sudo apt-get install php7.0

This will install the latest version of PHP 7 to your system.

Step 3: Verify installation

After the installation is completed, we can verify whether PHP was successfully installed. We can use the following command:

php -v

If PHP has been successfully installed, it will return PHP version information.

Step Four: Install PHP Extensions

Now, we have installed PHP 7, but if you need to use PHP extensions, you need to install them. To install a PHP extension you can use the following command:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-{extension_name}

Please replace {extension_name} with the name of your desired extension. For example, if you need to install the mysql extension, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

This will install the mysql extension into your system.

Step Five: Using PHP 7

Now that we have installed PHP 7 into linux and installed the required extensions, we can Using PHP 7 now. To use PHP 7, make sure your server is running a web server such as Apache or Nginx and configure it to install PHP 7.

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