Error: Zend® Optimizer ?

[Ivan Fraer]

I have purchased the new PRO edition but when I enter my admin dashboard I get this error:

The Zend® Optimizer is not installed on your server. s2Member Pro has been encoded with Zend® Guard. In order to run s2Member Pro, please install the free Zend® Optimizer, or contact your hosting provider and ask them to enable Zend® Optimizer for you.

Zend® Optimizer is one of the most popular PHP plugins for performance-improvement, and has been freely available since the early days of PHP 4. It improves performance by taking PHP's intermediate code through multiple optimization passes, which replaces inefficient code patterns with more efficient code blocks. The replacement code blocks perform exactly the same operations as the original code, only faster. In addition to performance-improvement, the Zend® Optimizer also allows PHP to transparently load files encoded by Zend® Guard. The Zend® Optimizer is a freely-available product from Zend® Technologies. Zend® Technologies is the company that develops the PHP scripting engine, also known as the Zend® Engine.

Do I really have to contact my host?
Tnx in advance

Best regards
Ivan

[Jason Caldwell]

Who is your hosting provider?
Yes, you'll need to contact them, and ask them to enable the Zend® Optimizer w/loader for you.
If you're running your own server, please write me back and I'll give you instructions.

[Ivan Fraer]

The provider is www.gigahost.dk and I will contact them - Tnx for reply.

[Jason Caldwell]

Ok thanks for the reply Ivan.

For anyone else reading this, Zend® Optimizer is pre-installed with most installations of PHP. For instance, all of these approved WordPress® hosting providers have the Zend® Optimizer already installed: http://wordpress.org/hosting/

Some other hosting providers have it pre-installed, but not configured. Once Zend® Optimizer is installed, you'll need these lines in your php.ini file. They should look something like this:

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; Configure the Zend Optimizer.
zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 1
zend_optimizer.optimization_level = 15
zend_extension = /path/to/ZendOptimizer.so


My top choice is MediaTemple (gs)
http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/

If your hosting provider does not have the Zend Optimizer installed, chances are, they can & will install it for you. In addition to performance-improvement, the Zend® Optimizer also allows PHP to transparently load files encoded by Zend® Guard. The Zend® Optimizer is a freely-available product from Zend® Technologies. Zend® Technologies is the company that develops the PHP scripting engine, also known as the Zend® Engine.

s2Member Pro has been encoded with Zend® Guard. In order to run s2Member Pro, you will need the Zend® Optimizer, or contact your hosting provider and ask them to enable Zend® Optimizer for you.