How to Upgrade PHP in WAMP

Hope this screencast helps :-)

[charliehustle]

Thank you, John. This was not as seamless as you described, a little thrashing on my part, but got the job done. The biggest thing I was missing was the distinction between thread safe and non thread safe; I never would have thrashed my way into that! Also, I had to adjust my .ini file to point to the new directory in which the PHP was now located in. At least I think I needed to. Then I had to invoke an older version that was still present in order to make the newest version visible from the WAMP home menu.

We're good now...

[finikitometal]

Hi I tried to update from PHP 5.5.12 to 5.6.21 but the wamp icon is always orange

[rw]

does this apply to php7, , so how come all other tuts change stuff in the ini file etc.... i also tried my updated version with composer and it rejected the new version... accepted the old version of php but says will only work with the new version so i have to upgrade.... crazy:::: in end went to wamp upgrade ph and dowmlaoded it, , took a few clicks and updated the cdn as well so composer recognised it.

[MariaKristaBeauty]

I'm able to install it but when I try to check the version it was not show. did i miss something?

[danialbutt]

John please tell us about cmdr utility that is used in this tutorial

[prashantbedekar]

Really nice video. But i want to upgrade my php version from 5.3.34 to 5.6.26. I downloaded the necessary zip file (thread safe version) and pasted all the content in newly created folder 5.6.26. I also copied 'phpforApache' and 'webserver.conf' files from old php folder 5.3.34 in newly created folder. Before doing this, i had stopped all wamp services and restarted them again after copying. But still it is showing old php version 5.3.34 and is not being upgraded. My apache version is 2.2.17. I am having windows 10 OS. What could be the problem?

[adeelfiaz]

I have followed your tutorial .. but i am getting this error on lcoalhost/phpmyadmin

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in on line 177

Any Help?

[DariodeJudicibus]

It does not work. WampServer remains orange. Server does not start

[mykiscool]

Thanks, this works if you reference the original article as well for the ini details.

[sikoo]

my apache is 2.4.2 are that's fine or not and if not how can i update it

[IzaryRondon]

Hi John, I suspect I have serious problems in my wamp server, because in php script, I can not retrieve information from a form by Post method. The Get method is working fine, but post method is does'nt. I have tried several times without any results. In phpinfo I saw a line: REQUEST_METHOD-GET. I'm worried because I did not see anything about POST. I don't know that it can be. I'm using wamp 2.5. Php version: 5.5.12 and Apache version: 249. Thank you!

[makedaevilmage]

I've followed along with the video in the attempt to install PHP 7. First, when I was extracting the .rar file my anti-virus went berserk. After finally giving permission to every single file ... WAMP just stays orange on PHP version 7. How can I troubleshoot this?

EDIT: Also installed VC14.

[developer]

hii i have update the php following your steps but my wamp icon show orange now what the problem in previous version it works fine

[johnpdugan]

That way we can keep the conversation in one place. Thx!

[TheRemoteone]

Hi thanks for the guide, which is the most comprehensive Ive found so far..,
However I cannot get this to work Im afraid.
Have installed v5.4.45 (current is v5.5.12) on Windows 7 x64.
Ive edited the .ini files and also checked the simlink.
The simlink was still aimed at v5.5.12, so I deleted the file.
Added the user "path" variable to windows environment.
After restating wamp, the simlink file was auto created and pointing at the correct folder, now
However still no worky ... Still no green light for 5.4.45.
Flicking back to php5.5.12 works fine.
Any thing else I can try?

[pksahuitf]

Great job thank you, the only thing I changed is just copied php.ini and phpForApache.ini file from existing one and change the paths for upgrade from 5.5.12 to 5.6.30 and 7.0.15 so I am having 5.5.12, 5.6.30 and 7.0.15 php in my wamp.

[ollakalla]

Thank,
Also you will need to change the path for php in Environmental Variable