Update PHP on Ubuntu 12.04 to 5.4 version with mcrypt extension; These are dependencies of CakePHP 3.0

upgrade-php5.sh

#!/bin/bash


# Install aptitude a better package manager than apt-get
# and install the apt-add-repository command
sudo apt-get install aptitude python-software-properties


# Add the ppa that has the oldstable version of PHP5
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable -y

# Install php5
sudo aptitude install -y libapache2-mod-php5 php-date php-mdb2 php-mdb2-driver-pgsql php-net-smtp php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-dev php5-fpm php5-imagick php5-pgsql php5-tidy php5-curl php5-mysql php5-pgsql php5-mcrypt

# Enable mcrypt
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart