As  plesk panel provide lower version of php and mysql , so for the application which needs higher php version we need to upgrade php version to higher than php 5.3 , In plesk it is very easy to upgrade php as well as mysql , you just need to follow steps as we are showing here,

First we are checking php and mysql version before upgrade

[server@techtransit ~]# php -v
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Jul 9 2015 17:39:00)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd.

[server@techtransit~]# mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.73, for redhat-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.1

Download and Install epel and remi repository

[server@techtransit ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
[server@techtransit ~]# rpm -Uvh  epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
[server@techtransit ~]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
[server@techtransit ~]# rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm

Now edit remi.repo and enable remi repository

[server@techtransit ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

[remi]
name=Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/6/remi/mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi

save and exit
Now install php by yum command

[server@techtransit ~]# yum install php

=========================================================================================
Package                 Arch           Version                     Repository     Size
=========================================================================================
Updating:
php                     x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi         2.8 M
Installing for dependencies:
compat-mysql51         x86_64         5.1.54-1.el6.remi           remi         1.4 M
libaio                 x86_64         0.3.107-10.el6             base           21 k
t1lib                   x86_64         5.1.2-6.el6_2.1             base         160 k
Updating for dependencies:
mysql                   x86_64         5.5.45-1.el6.remi           remi        5.8 M
mysql-libs             x86_64         5.5.45-1.el6.remi           remi         778 k
mysql-server           x86_64         5.5.45-1.el6.remi           remi           10 M
php-cli                 x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi         remi         4.1 M
php-common             x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi         961 k
php-gd                 x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi         147 k
php-imap               x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi           83 k
php-mbstring           x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi         948 k
php-mysql               x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi          140 k
php-pdo                 x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi         124 k
php-xml                 x86_64         5.4.45-1.el6.remi           remi         175 k

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================

After installing the packages check the php and mysql upgraded version

[server@techransit ~]# php -v
PHP 5.4.45 (cli) (built: Sep 2 2015 18:54:00)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.6.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by ionCube Ltd.

[server@techtransit~]# mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.45, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1

Now fix the privilege for mysql databases as this is a important step

[server@techtransit~]# mysql_upgrade -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

Now php and mysql successfully upgraded .
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