Install Zend Optimizer on Ubuntu 8.04

Here is a short tutorial on how to install zend optimizer on ubuntu 8.04:
First of all ,download Zend Optimizer from official website.
Before installing Zend Optimizer ,you need to install apache, php:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php

Then create the index.php page under /var/www/:

echo “” > /var/www/index.php

Now , begin to install zend optimizer:

tar zxf ZendOptimizer-3.3.3-linux-glibc23-i386.tar.gz
cd ZendOptimizer-3.3.3-linux-glibc23-i386
./install.sh

After installation , restart the [...]

New PHP V6 features

May 6,IBM DeveloperWorks announced the new features of PHP v6(,which is PHP’s next edition) in the article.
This article focuses on the changes for PHP V6 ,as follows:
1. Improved Unicode support,which will allow PHP to support a broader set of characters for international support.
2. New namespaces,you can have class names that someone else might use, but now [...]

why do you choose PHP?

Tim Bray in the OpenWeb and PHP and Women First observed:
there were way more women in the audience, proportionally, than I’ve seen at any Ruby or Rails or Java event.
Then ,we can look at the comtents following the topic, which is very reasonable:

I wonder if it’s because PHP makes it easy for someone to follow the “designer” [...]