ll is going well on my new server at myhost.ie but I wanted the latest php version with soap and json and when I did yum update php it said all was up to date. I settled down for a long day sorting this out but it turned out to be this easy:
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh |sh yum update php yum install php-soap yum install php-json /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a /etc/init.d/httpd reload