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I have an iPod touch running iOS 4.0 and an iPad running iOS 4.3.1, both jailbroken. They have lighttpd and PHP installed, however PHP seems to be an old version that I need to upgrade to use a WebSocket script.

How would I go about updating it? According to a phpinfo() call, it has been configured with parameters to do with iOS, would this matter?

Update 20/7/11 You can find my phpinfo at this tinypaste.

Thanks in advance for all of your help. Ad@m

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Can you give us your current output of phpinfo? Maybe pastie.org it. – zevlag Jul 19 '11 at 20:52
@zevlag I've added the link to a tinypaste of my phpinfo in the question. Ad@m – thekirbylover Jul 20 '11 at 1:02
thekirbylover, i am a PHP developer. Just curious to ask why you install PHP on iPad and iPod? are you able to program on these devices? – kimsia Nov 25 '12 at 4:36
@kimsia, it's a great way to test code when I don't have a computer or access to the internet. – thekirbylover Nov 25 '12 at 8:37
@thekirbylover sounds like a good idea. what about webserver, mysql? – kimsia Nov 27 '12 at 5:12
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If you build the iPhone toolchain in you local environment, you can compile PHP locally and then move it to iOS.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4001510/compile-php-with-gd-for-iphone-os-4-1

http://george.insideiphone.com/index.php/iphone-toolchain/

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-dev/

http://www.sj99.com/toolchain.html

I've not done this, but I'm curious, and will make an attempt myself over the next few days, and update this answer as I go along.

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Thanks for the answer, I will try this method tonight and I will tell you how I go. Ad@m – thekirbylover Jul 20 '11 at 1:05
Ok... I tried it on my device and when I run ./configure from the folder I extracted php's source code to, I get a message saying it couldn't find gcc. On installing from Cydia, I am told libgcc wasn't found. I haven't tried installing a toolchain yet, but I will try that now. Ad@m – thekirbylover Jul 20 '11 at 12:33
I still haven't tried installing the keychain, but the bounty ends tomorrow so I will give it to you. Thanks for all your help for my question. Ad@m – thekirbylover Jul 25 '11 at 8:36
Thanks Adam, I've not tried it yet either. I'll hopefully get time some evening this week. – zevlag Jul 26 '11 at 13:24

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