This install requires postgresql to be installed… You can remove the –with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql from the ./configure line if you don’t want to use it…

yum install -y gd libxml libtiff mrtg libxslt-devel libxml2-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel

cd ~
wget -c http://fr.php.net/get/php-5.3.3.tar.gz/from/fr2.php.net/mirror
tar zxvf php-5.3.3.tar.gz

cd php-5.3.3/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php-5.3.3 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-gd --with-zlib --enable-sockets --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-zlib --enable-gd-native-ttf --enable-mbstring=all --enable-magic-quotes --with-gettext --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql --enable-libxml --with-xsl=/usr/lib

make clean
make
make install
cd /usr/local/
rm -f /usr/local/php
ln -s /usr/local/php-5.3.3/ /usr/local/php
cp ~/php-5.3.3/php.ini-production /usr/local/php/lib/php.ini
cd ~/
rm -Rf ~/php-5.3.3/

chown -R root.www /usr/local/php
chmod -R g-w,o-rwx /usr/local/php