Resolved Any risk involved with changing PHP CLI?

[PHPBandit]

Hello, I found this script and tested it on a server which came with 5.4 used on CentOS 7 Linux server. https://gist.github.com/vjandrea/132a15186fa0193fb764

After doing it, php -v showed updated version of 5.6 or whatever you would use. Is that okay? Does Plesk or server rely on 5.4? Is it bad to change it?

 

[UFHH01]

Hi PHPBandit,

After doing it, php -v showed updated version of 5.6

You seem to misunderstand something here. You still have the very same serverwide PHP - version installed on your server and nothing has been "updated". The script just symlinks the executables "/usr/bin/php" and "/usr/bin/php-cgi" to the Plesk - PHP - version, located at "/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/".

Is that okay?

It would be o.k. for Plesk, when you would update your php_handler for Plesk and when you change as well the corresposping serverwide "php-config".

Does Plesk or server rely on 5.4?

Plesk doesn't, but you will experience issues with your installed software on your server, when it comes to dependencies.

Is it bad to change it?

Is is rather "bad" and by far not good... it's purely nonsense. I can't see any reason, why someone would do that.