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PHP 5.6 will stop getting security updates in January 2019. Consider upgrading to PHP 7 now

PLEASE READ : For those who are getting "unknown public key" errors, this is NOT caused by this package. It means GPG is not configured to fetch public keys automatically (which is normal by default)

Please read the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Signature_checking

The easiest way to overcome this is to manually import the keys from a keyserver :

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys C2BF0BC433CFC8B3 FE857D9A90D90EC1

foxxx and I have been working together and this package can now be installed along PHP 7 from the official repos.

Everything has been moved into separate directories :

Config : /etc/php56
Extensions : /usr/lib/php56/modules
Binaries : /usr/bin/php56, /usr/bin/php56-cgi, /usr/bin/phar56, etc.

If you were previously using this as a replacement for php7, you'll have to adjust the new configuration files in /etc/php56/ to reflect the current ones in /etc/php/.

Apache module (provided by php56-apache) also has a specific configuration and CAN NOT cohabit with php7_module. Use php-fpm, fcgi or cgi if you need both versions.

The apache module is installed as libphp56.so, so you should use the following lines your httpd.conf :

# Load php 5.6 module
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp56.so

# Use it for .php extensions
Include conf/extra/php56_module.conf

Please let me know if you encounter any problem or have a suggestion.

Trying to install with marcvangend's hint (fix the upstream source), after the compilation finishes, i get the following error:

==> Finished making: php56 5.6.16-1 (Mon 4 Jan 10:41:09 CET 2016)
[sudo] password for hoek:
loading packages...
error: 'php56-cgi-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-apache-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-fpm-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-embed-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-phpdbg-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-pear-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-enchant-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-gd-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-imap-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-intl-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-ldap-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-mcrypt-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-mssql-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-odbc-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-pgsql-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-pspell-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-snmp-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-sqlite-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-tidy-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target
error: 'php56-xsl-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target

Any suggestions what could cause them?

The upstream resources don't seem to exist (at the moment): "==> ERROR: Failure while downloading php-5.6.16.tar.xz". When you change "http://www.php.net/distributions/php-5.6.16.tar.xz" to "http://php.net/distributions/php-5.6.16.tar.xz" (remove the www subdomain) the download does succeed, but the integrity check fails with "php-5.6.16.tar.xz ... FAILED (unknown public key C2BF0BC433CFC8B3)".

I managed to build the package using packer with the --skipinteg option, but that's not recommended of course. Once the build was complete, installation failed with "error: 'php56-***-5.6.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': duplicate target". Help / fixes/ documentation is appreciated.

Thanks for this package. Is there a binary repo available somewhere?