Matt
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Many thanks to @Floren from Axivo.com
I'm now running PHP 5.6 on my production server using this Axivo rpms
PHP Development Team announced today the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0. This version comes with new features, some backward incompatible changes and many improvements.
The main features of PHP 5.6.0 include:
https://www.axivo.com/articles/php-5-6-update-released.13/
I'm now running PHP 5.6 on my production server using this Axivo rpms

PHP Development Team announced today the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0. This version comes with new features, some backward incompatible changes and many improvements.
The main features of PHP 5.6.0 include:
- Constant scalar expressions
- Variadic functions and argument unpacking using the ... operator.
- Exponentiation using the ** operator
- Function and constant importing with the use keyword
- phpdbg as an interactive integrated debugger SAPI
- php://input is now reusable, and $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated
- GMP objects now support operator overloading
- File uploads larger than 2 gigabytes in size are now accepted
Code:
[root@host php.d]# php -v
PHP 5.6.0 (cli) (built: Aug 28 2014 18:07:45)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
https://www.axivo.com/articles/php-5-6-update-released.13/
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