Donald Tripp said...

|You can also try using a YUM repository for Fedora, and doing a yum  
|install php, which should solve all your package dependencies for you.
|
|http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/

Dag deserves a monument for the packages he
makes available on so many platforms.  He's
not the only one, but he's one of the main
ones.  His repo has saved my hide many times.