[hnarn]

RHEL 7 provides Apache 2.4 and PHP version 5.4, and RHEL/CentOS 7 is going to be around for a while.

[davesmith1983]

I am running CentOS 7 and that is still using 5.4. I am only running a forum, IRC and some other things and I don't really want to bother with third party packages.

[aorth]

For what it's worth I've been using PHP 5.6 via Software Collections (SCL) on my CentOS 7 system for a few years with zero problems. I think I will update to PHP 7.x soon (probably 7.2).

https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-php72/