Install PHP version 7 from source on Ubuntu 14.04+

installPHPFromSourceUbuntu.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Names of latest versions of PHP package
export VERSION_PHP=php-5.6.26

# PHP mirror URL
export SOURCE_PHP=http://php.net/get/${VERSION_PHP}.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror

# Path to local build
export BUILD_DIR=/usr/local/src/php

function setup() {
    # create and clean build directory
    mkdir -p ${BUILD_DIR}
    rm -Rf ${BUILD_DIR}/*
    # install build environment tools
    apt -y install supervisor \
    build-essential \                                                                                                                                                                            [109/3262]│
    zlib1g-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libpcre3 \                                                                                                                                                                                                    │
    libpcre3-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    unzip \                                                                                                                                                                                                       │
    libxpm-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libgmp-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libxmp-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libjpeg-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libpng12-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                         │
    libbz2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libxml2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libfreetype6-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                            │
    libmcrypt-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                               │
    libxml2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libbz2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libjpeg-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libx11-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libgd-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                   │
    libmcrypt-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                               │
    libmysqld-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                               │
    libmysqlclient-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                          │
    libmhash-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    libevent-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    libc-client-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                             │
    zlib1g-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libpng-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libxslt-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libfreetype6-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                            │
    libgmp-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libxml2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libpcre3-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    libbz2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libjpeg-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libxpm-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libfreetype6-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                            │
    libmysqlclient-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                          │
    libt1-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                   │
    libgd2-xpm-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                              │
    libgmp-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                  │
    libsasl2-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    libmhash-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    unixodbc-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                │
    freetds-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libpspell-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                               │
    libsnmp-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libtidy-dev \                                                                                                                                                                                                 │
    libmcrypt-dev
}

function download_sources() {
    # todo: verify checksum / integrity of downloads!
    echo "Download sources"

    pushd ${BUILD_DIR}
    wget ${SOURCE_PHP} -O ${VERSION_PHP}.tar.bz2

    popd
}

function extract_sources() {
    pushd ${BUILD_DIR}
    tar xvf ${VERSION_PHP}.tar.bz2
    popd
}

function compile_php() {
    pushd ${BUILD_DIR}/${VERSION_PHP}
    make clean
    
    ./configure \
        '--prefix=/usr/local/php7-fpm' \
        '--with-mysql' \
        '--with-gd' \
        '--with-gettext' \
        '--with-libdir=lib64' \
        '--with-jpeg-dir' \
        '--with-zlib' \
        '--with-curl' \
        '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/php7-fpm/lib/php.d' \
        '--with-freetype-dir' \
        '--with-png-dir' \
        '--with-xpm-dir' \
        '--enable-gd-native-ttf' \
        '--with-mysqli' \
        '--with-pdo-mysql' \
        '--with-gmp' \
        '--enable-ftp' \
        '--enable-magic-quotes' \
        '--enable-sysvsem' \
        '--enable-fpm' \
        '--enable-sysvshm' \
        '--enable-sysvmsg' \
        '--with-kerberos' \
        '--enable-shmop' \
        '--with-libxml-dir' \
        '--enable-xml' \
        '--with-mcrypt' \
        '--enable-soap'

    make && make install
    (/usr/local/php7-fpm/bin/pecl config-set php_ini /usr/local/php7-fpm/lib/php.ini; /usr/local/php7-fpm/bin/pear config-set php_ini /usr/local/php7-fpm/lib/php.ini) && (/usr/local/php7-fpm/bin/pecl config-set temp_dir /root || /usr/local/php7-fpm/bin/pear config-set temp_dir /root)
    popd
    # Create supervisord service file
}

echo "Building ${VERSION_PHP}"
setup && download_sources && extract_sources && compile_php

retval=$?

echo ""
if [ $retval -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Your php binary is located at /usr/local/php7-fpm/sbin/php7-fpm"
else
    echo "Ooops, build failed. Check output!"
fi