Hi Philip, > I purchased the solarspeed php 5.3.5 upgrade package today and installed to > our server. > > I just worked out that this php upgrade is missing the zend optimiser so my > zencart wont run. > > I already have zend installed for the normal (stock) php. > > How can I install a later version of the zend runtime to the solarspeed php > upgrade, if it's possible at all?
At the time that PKG was built, Zend didn't have a Zend Optimizer that would work with PHP-5.3. There was only a beta of it available through backchannels, which apparently was so troublesome, that I didn't dare to include it, as it would probably fall flat on its face, taking Apache with it. Personally I find it highly troublesome that a company like Zend (who used to be bleeding egde when it came to PHP stuff) can't get their act together on this - even ages after PHP-5.3.0 was released. IonCube (Zend's competitor) had their IonCube Encoder Cerberus and the libraries for PHP-5.3 out in pretty much no time after the release. Their Encoder is even downwards compatible, which Zend isn't and it has a better performance. Hell, it even costs less, so I can't really figure out why commercial software vendors still are so attached to Zend's crappy "Optimizer" <sigh>. My suggestion: Contact me offlist and trade the PHP-5.3.5 in for the PHP-5.2.17 PKG instead (at no extra charge). The PHP-5.2.17 PKG has both Zend Optimizer and IonCube included. -- With best regards Michael Stauber
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