Best way to upgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.4

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 19, 2013, at 20:00, Tim Johnson wrote:
>   Holy, moly!
>   It turns out that I have php5 installed as an apache module
>   linus:~ tim$ apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES | grep php
>   Syntax OK
>    php5_module (shared)
> 
> I am terribly new to PHP and how it works - although I've been a
> 'traditional' (I.E. non-PHP) CGI programmer since I had hair.
> 
> I hope that I have not taken your time unnecessarily. You've given
> my question a great deal of responses. I will store you responses
> as resource info.
> 
> Thanks very much again. If I wasn't such a noob, I would have
> checked for modules first thing, but I've just been edified on the
> apache/PHP architecture.

I'm glad to answer your questions; please ask if there's anything else. Hopefully one day I'll even have time to write up new wiki pages documenting the current state of PHP in MacPorts.