Please try a little harder with the documentation

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#1

I currently have a problem where zend optimizer will not install. As a side note, the install instructions on the Zend site are useless because they refer to files that don’t exist in the archive.

So I go to the “documentation” on offer at scriptcase.net.
http://downloads.scriptcase.net/downloads/v5/manual/en_us/webhelp/manual_mp/manual_mp.htm

The instructions to install zend optimizer are linked from that document
http://www.netmake.com.br/site/baseknowledge/baseknowledge.php?id_topico=98

Unfortunately it’s in a language I don’t speak, much less read.

PS: Does anyone know why the zend optimizer no longer has an install script in the archive?

Update: For the benefit of other linux users frustrated by the lack of clear directions either in the SC documentation or the zend website, you only need to download the zend optimizer archive, unpack in a convenient directory and add a line in your php.ini:
zend_extension="<full path>/ZendOptimizer.so" - it’ll be in the data/<phpversion>/ directory of the extracted archive.

#2

Re: Please try a little harder with the documentation

Zend Optimizer does not currently support or work with PHP 5.3.
So I could not figure for hours why I was getting this message
“Zend Optimizer not installed”
when I Would load “http://localhost/scriptcase/”

#3

Re: Please try a little harder with the documentation

Zend Optimizer does not currently support or work with PHP 5.3.

Yea, real bummer for those of us using Ubuntu Lucid and later. It’s a real PITA setting up PHP5.3 on that distro without seriously mucking up the repositories.

#4

Re: Please try a little harder with the documentation

Zend are making big changes in their zend optimizer.

We already finish a documentation about how to install on Mac OS, now we’re updating the documentation about isntalling Zend optimizer on linux :slight_smile:

Thanks for posting.

#5

Re: Please try a little harder with the documentation

Slightly OT, Diogo, but from what i am reading there still won’t be support for PHP5.3. Or am I wrong?

#6

Re: Please try a little harder with the documentation

There is other way to do that … like you said before:

you only need to download the zend optimizer archive, unpack in a convenient directory and add a line in your php.ini:
zend_extension="<full path>/ZendOptimizer.so" - it’ll be in the data/<phpversion>/ directory of the extracted archive.

But zend inst providing zend optmizer anymore. Zend Optimizer, Zend Core and Zend Platform are now Zend Server. We’re already studying this changes to make our move.
If you check zend optimizer(isnt in the site anymore), zend core and zend plataform its displaying the message: Zend Platform has entered the End of Life process.

So … its better to wait, just for now … in PHP 5.2.

Are you needing something that was implemented in php 5.3?

#7

Re: Please try a little harder with the documentation

Are you needing something that was implemented in php 5.3?

No. It’s just that I use Ubuntu and since Lucid, PHP5.3 has been the default. Taking it back to PHP5.2 is tedious and prone to problems, although the script I have for that works OK for Lucid. Just means I am holding off on Ubuntu 10.10.

No big deal.

Thanks