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Upgrade XAMPP 1.7.7 to PHP 5.4.0← Back

29 Mar, 2012

Download the PHP 5.4.0 package
Stop Apache through the XAMPP Control GUI
Rename C:\XAMPP\php to C:\XAMPP\php-old
Extract the package to C:\XAMPP\php
Copy C:\XAMPP\php\php.ini-production to C:\XAMPP\php\php.ini

Update the following settings in C:\XAMPP\php\php.ini

error_log =  "\xampp\php\logs\php_error_log"
include_path = ".;\xampp\php\PEAR"
extension_dir = "\xampp\php\ext"
upload_tmp_dir = "\xampp\tmp"
browscap = "\xampp\php\extras\browscap.ini"
session.save_path = "\xampp\tmp"
session.hash_function = 1
soap.wsdl_cache_dir="\xampp\tmp"

Uncomment any necessary PHP modules in C:\XAMPP\php\php.ini. NB: Not all modules can be enabled without installing additional libraries. The uncommented modules in the following list should suffice and do not require any extra libraries other than what is included with XAMPP

extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_gettext.dll
extension=php_gmp.dll
;extension=php_intl.dll
extension=php_imap.dll
;extension=php_interbase.dll
extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll      ; Must be after mbstring as it depends on it
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
;extension=php_oci8.dll      ; Use with Oracle 10gR2 Instant Client
;extension=php_oci8_11g.dll  ; Use with Oracle 11gR2 Instant Client
extension=php_openssl.dll
;extension=php_pdo_firebird.dll
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
;extension=php_pdo_oci.dll
;extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll
;extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll
;extension=php_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_pspell.dll
;extension=php_shmop.dll

; The MIBS data available in the PHP distribution must be installed. 
; See http://www.php.net/manual/en/snmp.installation.php 
;extension=php_snmp.dll

extension=php_soap.dll
extension=php_sockets.dll
;extension=php_sqlite.dll
extension=php_sqlite3.dll
;extension=php_sybase_ct.dll
;extension=php_tidy.dll
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll
extension=php_xsl.dll
;extension=php_zip.dll

PHP 5.4.0 requires that you set the default timezone in php.ini. I'm in Brisbane, Australia so I set the following
```
date.timezone = "Australia/Brisbane"
date.default_latitude = -278.29
date.default_longitude = 153.80
```
Copy C:\XAMPP\php-old\extras\browsecap.ini to C:\xampp\php\extras
Start Apache via the XAMPP Control GUI and you will be running PHP 5.4.0

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Comments

Ankur

2013-02-16

I got very good article here for the same http://www.techflirt.com/how-to-upgrade-php-in-xampp/

Mei

2012-11-19

Great guide.

In addition to these steps I also had to copy xampp/php/php5apache2_2.dll to xampp/apache/modules/php5apache2_2.dll (which already existed) to get things going correctly.

Some of the modules I enabled didn't exist, which gave errors on start up, but starting apache/apache_start.bat will tell you which ones it can't find. These can then be commented out in php.ini.

Ian

2012-05-24

tengo un problema en el config de pear
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\Config.php on line 80

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\Config.php on line 166

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\php\PEAR\Config\Container.php on line 111

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