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So you want to use PHP from the command line or you have PHP from the command line but you don't have mysqli installed.

run the following shell script:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Are you logged in as root?";
select yn in "Yes" "No"; do
case $yn in
Yes ) echo "Okay here we go"; break;;
No ) exit;;
esac
done
echo "INSTALL PHP (cli):";
yum install php;
echo "INSTALL PHP PEAR:";
yum install php-pear;
echo "INSTALL MYSQL: (mysql, mysqli, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, sqlite3, etc..)";
yum install php-mysql;
exit;