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Upgrading Laravel Homestead to PHP 5.6

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Coderabbi shows us how to upgrade Homestead using a PHP 5.6 PPA:

PHP 5.6 is nearly upon us! According to PHP.net, the last minor upgrade to PHP 5 will be released on August 28th, bringing with it some powerful and exciting new features including variadic functions, argument unpacking, function and constant importing, constant scalar expressions, the exponentiation operator, a new interactive debugger, and more.

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