can't install php-devel on centos

Question

I need help with installation of php-devel (I need it, cause it has phpize, which is necessary to install eAccelerator). But when I try to install php-devel with yum i

Answer 1

What I did was:

yum search php53

and it showed the php-devel file to install. Once I did the search and found the correct devel package, I simply copied and pasted the entire name after yum install. I executed

yum install php53-devel.x86_64

to get it