Install PHP 7.3.10 on CentOS 8

CentOS 8 comes with PHP 7.2 by default, you can check with this command:

dnf info php

We need use a third-party repository for install PHP 7.3.x

1. Enable EPEL repository

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

2. Install REMI repository

dnf install -y https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

3. Install PHP 7.3.x

Check which versions of PHP are available:

dnf module list php

Output:

CentOS-8 - AppStream
Name     Stream          Profiles                      Summary
php      7.2             common [d], devel, minimal    PHP scripting language

Remi's Modular repository for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
Name     Stream          Profiles                      Summary
php      remi-7.2        common [d], devel, minimal    PHP scripting language
php      remi-7.3 [e]    common [d], devel, minimal    PHP scripting language
php      remi-7.4        common [d], devel, minimal    PHP scripting language

Hint: [d]efault, [e]nabled, [x]disabled, [i]nstalled

Enable PHP 7.3 module to install PHP 7.3.x

dnf module enable php:remi-7.3 -y

Install PHP 7.3.x

dnf install -y php php-cli php-common

4. Check PHP Version

php -v

Output:

PHP 7.3.10 (cli) (built: Sep 24 2019 09:20:18) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.3.10, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies