PHP7 on Ubuntu 15.10

Hello!

Let’s install PHP7 on your ubuntu. This is been tested at Ubuntu 15.10 and work great. We will be using the PPA https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php which is updated often and seems the easiest solution 😉

In your console:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-curl php7.0-mysql php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-dev php-apcu php-apcu-bc

Edit the file

/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

And add to the end of the file

extension=mysqly.so
extension=curl.so
extension=acpu.so

In same file search and replace

short_open_tag = Off

For

short_open_tag = On

Lastly restart:

sudo service apache2 restart

To test that you are using the correct version:

php -v

Update: If you want to run PHP 5.6. and PHP7 at same time check this blog post.