How to install Zend guard on thread-safe version of PHP 5.3.5?

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PHP

I'm building a local web server on Windows. PHP 5.3.5 was taken as a basis (thread-safe and Apache 2.2.17. Everything was installed without problems BUT ... it became necessary to install Zend Guard on the server. Not a problem, I decided and went to the Zend website where I downloaded the version for PHP 5.3.x , put everything according to read me, I run it, and it gives me an error on the missing php5.dll file. -safe version
I would install a non-thread-safe version of PHP and not write this question, BUT... when installing the non-thread-safe version, it turned out that there is no important file for connecting to Apache, namely php5apache2_2.dll, and As it turns out, this is not a bug, but a feature.
So it turns out that Zend Guard cannot be installed in any way. Maybe habralyudi will be able to offer a solution to this problem?

Answer 1

Try downloading the PHP zip package, it's usually more complete than the installer.
And by the way, use VC9 nts builds, though they require Apache from the site from apachelounge.com, because only there it will be compiled by the 9th studio, and off. site is still 6th. This is necessary because future versions of PHP no longer support VC6 builds.
You need the TS version if you use a multi-threaded server, for example, IIS under windows, in other cases it is recommended to use nts. Even in the case of a multi-threaded server, the ts-version is not so stable, because many extensions are not written with ts in mind. Here :) I somehow at one fine moment got tired of this hemorrhoid with installing php and searching for the necessary modules under Windows, and I went to ubuntu, which I still do not regret :)