Install PHP 5.6 on CentOS/RHEL 7 via YUM (Webtatic and IUS)
Again, another brain dump for future use. A stock installation of CentOS 7 will be packaged with PHP 5.4 which is now end of life. This is how to install PHP 5.6, which is currently only receiving security updates.
Side note: These commands install the basic PHP requirements for Magento.
Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 via Webtatic
$ rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm
$ yum install php56w php56w-opcache php56w-xml php56w-mcrypt php56w-gd php56w-devel php56w-mysql php56w-intl php56w-mbstring php56w-bcmath php56w-soap
Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 via IUS
$ yum -y install epel-release
$ wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
$ wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm yum -y update yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath php56u-soap
You can also install php-fpm via these repositories. For example: yum install php56w-fpm (webtatic) or yum install php56u-fpm (ius)
Further Documentation: https://webtatic.com/packages/php56/