Upgrading PHP5.4 to PHP5.6 on CentOS7

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Resource:
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/install-epel-and-additional-repositories-on-centos-and-red-hat/

#Step 1 - Add the IUS Repo 
wget https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm

#Add it to YUM, U=upgrade, v=verbose, h=hash
sudo rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm

#Step 2 - Add the yum plugin replace package
sudo yum install yum-plugin-replace

#Step 3 - List PHP packages we'll need to replace
yum list installed | grep php

php.x86_64                              5.4.16-36.3.el7_2              @updates 
php-cli.x86_64                          5.4.16-36.3.el7_2              @updates 
php-common.x86_64                       5.4.16-36.3.el7_2              @updates 
php-imap.x86_64                         5.4.16-5.el7                   @epel    
php-mssql.x86_64                        5.4.16-5.el7                   @epel    
php-mysql.x86_64                        5.4.16-36.3.el7_2              @updates 
php-pdo.x86_64                          5.4.16-36.3.el7_2              @updates 

#Step 4 - Replace Using the yum-plugin-replace
sudo yum replace php --replace-with php56u

As below:
php56u.x86_64                           5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-cli.x86_64                       5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-common.x86_64                    5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-gmp.x86_64                       5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-imap.x86_64                      5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-mssql.x86_64                     5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-mysqlnd.x86_64                   5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-pdo.x86_64                       5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-pear.noarch                      1:1.10.1-4.ius.centos7         @ius     
php56u-pecl-jsonc.x86_64                1.3.10-2.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-process.x86_64                   5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius     
php56u-xml.x86_64                       5.6.27-1.ius.centos7           @ius 

#Step 5 - Restart Apache
sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

#Step 6 - Check Zlib Compression
zlib.output_compression

thanks a lot :-）