WAMP 2.2 does not recognise PHP5.6.29

Hello all,

I'm trying to install PHP5.6.9 on my wamp 2.2 as the old version of php does not support magento or laravel. I've copied the new php folder inside the php folder stored inside wamp and changed the php.ini to include:

the extension_dir = "c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.6.29/ext/"

and the

zend_extension = "c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.6.29/zend_ext/php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc9.dll"

I've also changed the .httpd.conf to include:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.6.29/php5apache2_2.dll"

I also copied the phpForApache.ini and changed that

extension_dir = "c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.6.29/ext/"

Although I had to copy the phpapache2_2.dll from my older version as the new version did not include it and restarted wamp. When I clicked on the wamp icon and checked the version, I found two versions, the old and the new. By clicking on the new version wamp restarted and the new version was checked. I typed in phpinfo(); to check if the new version worked and found that the page stated php5.3.8 was running. I checked the wamp again and the version php5.6.29 was still checked.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

Edited January 26, 20179 yr by Dredd2000