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List of PHP accelerators 111
Zend Platform
Zend Platform (formerly Zend Cache and then Zend Accelerator) is a commercial Web Application Server product.
It has a complete set of performance capabilities that includes more than a simple PHP accelerator. Features include
code caching/acceleration, data caching, content (html output) caching, download optimization and off-line
(asynchronous) processing capabilities that can result in significant performance improvements for most PHP
applications. It also includes detailed PHP monitoring and root cause analysis support to help in tuning and
debugging, session fail-over support for HA (High Availability) needs and other integration capabilities including
Java integration.
• Home Page: http://www.zend.com/products/platform
Windows Cache Extension for PHP
A free, open source (New BSD License), PHP-accelerator developed by Microsoft for PHP under Windows. The
extension includes PHP opcode cache, file cache, resolve file path cache and object/session cache. Combination of
all these caches results in significant performance improvements for PHP applications hosted on Windows. The
extension is primarily used with Internet Information Services and non-thread-safe build of PHP via FastCGI
protocol.
• Home page: http://www.iis.net/expand/WinCacheForPHP
• PHP version: works with PHP 5.2 (VC6 NTS) and 5.3 (VC9 NTS), source code available
• Latest stable version: 1.0.1
• Status: released, actively developed.
• Download link (source): http://pecl.php.net/package/WinCache
• Download link (binary): http://www.iis.net/expand/WinCacheForPhp
• Help and API documenation http://www.php.net/wincache
Other software
Zend Optimizer
Despite the name, Zend Optimizer is not a code accelerator. Rather, is a free, closed source PHP extension by Zend
that enables PHP to run files encoded by Zend Guard [1] .
• Home Page: http://www.zend.com/products/guard/optimizer/
[1] "Zend Guard" (http://www.zend.com/products/guard/optimizer/). . Retrieved September 28, 2009.