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Updated on 2025-03-10

Install ZendOptimizer extension on PHP5.3 or above

Now many PHP programs require the ZendOptimizer environment, but ZendOptimizer has been supported after PHP5.2. What should I do? Zend will not do this. It turns out that since PHP5.3, ZendOptimizer has been officially changed to Zend Guard Loader.

Zend Guard Loader is released, and Zend Optimizer will not be updated again, and due to the great differences, when using Zend Guard encrypted code, you will be prompted whether to use php5.3. If 5.3 is used, the code will not run on php5.2.

Zend Guard Loader Installation Instructions

Download the Zend Guard Loader package
(Official address: /en/products/guard/downloads)

Linux:

x86:/guard/5.5.0/ZendGuardLoader-php-5.

x64:/guard/5.5.0/ZendGuardLoader-php-5.3-linux-glibc23-x86_64.

Windows:

/guard/5.5.0/ZendGuardLoader-php-5.

and extract (Linux) or (Windows) to upload to the server.

Load ZendGuardLoader, configure
example:

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zend_extension=C:\web\PHP\ext\
zend_loader.enable=1
zend_loader.disable_licensing=0
zend_loader.obfuscation_level_support=3
zend_loader.license_path=

The following explains one by one:

Note that the Windows version only supports NTS (non-thread safe) version of PHP5.3, that is, Thread Safety in phpinfo is disabled!

Add the following line to your file:

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;Linux and Mac OS X:
zend_extension=<absolute path>
;Windows non-thread-safe:
zend_extension=<absolute path>

Add the following line to load the ZendGuardLoader:

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;Enable load encoding scripts. On by default
zend_loader.enable=1

Optional: Configure ZendGuardLoader

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;Disable check authorization (for performance reasons)
zend_loader.disable_licensing=0
;Configuration obfuscation level 0 - Obfuscation is not supported
zend_loader.obfuscation_level_support=3
;Configure the path to find the authorization file
zend_loader.license_path=

If you use Zend debugger at the same time, please ensure that you load the Zend guard Loader and then load the Zend debugger.

If you use Ioncube loader at the same time, please ensure that you load the Ioncube loader and then load the Zend guard loader

Restart the web service.

If you see the following in phpinfo (different versions may vary):

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This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies

It means the installation has been successful!

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