Best way to upgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.4

[Tim Johnson]

* Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> [130418 18:49]:
> 
> On Apr 18, 2013, at 19:57, Tim Johnson wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to upgrade PHP, the current version is 5.3.15 to
> > 5.4.
> > 
> > I can't remember if I originally installed PHP from Macports or if
> > it was shipped as native to OSX.
> > 
> > Regardless : I would welcome advice on whether to use Macports or if
> > anyone finds the following :
> > http://php-osx.liip.ch/
> > as  preferable.
> > 
> > I'm a bit green when it comes to OSX (previously on linux) and have
> > two websites in active development based on PHP and I don't want to
> > screw anything up.
> 
> As the maintainer of the php ports in MacPorts, I will of course recommend you use them. :)
  Boy, did I hit the jackpot!
 
> You can use
> 
> 	port installed | grep php
 
> to see if you have any MacPorts php installed; if you do, chances are you're using that.
  Null response from grep, so this is a 'native' install?
 
> If you want php 5.4 for use as an Apache module, you would:
 
> 	sudo port install php54-apache2handler
 Understood, and previously would I invoke 
 sudo port install php54
 ??
> 
> If you have specific questions, let me know.
  Thank you. 
-- 
Tim 
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