If you are on a GoDaddy server and are trying to use Syndicate Kahuna and you get a Zend Optimizer error when you try to add your site to the SK interface then read on for the fix.

Normally SK works fine on GoDaddy as long as you upload the sk-article file in binary mode. But if you get an error saying that Zend Optimizer isn't installed it's like because you are using php version 5.

I ran into this problem tonight. Although I have other sites that use Syndicate Kahuna within the same hosting package and they work fine, for one of my sites it didn't and the only real difference is that I enabled php 5 for that particular site. In case you didn't know, to enable php5 on GoDaddy you just have to add this line to the top of your .htaccess file: AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

Here's how I fixed it to get SK working...

1) Create a free account at Zend.com
2) Download Zend Optimizer for Linux x86 (32 Bit)
3) Unzip the Zend package and find the file: /data/5_2_x_comp/ZendOptimizer.so
4) Upload that file to your blog to a folder called "zend"
5) Create a file called php5.ini with the following text...

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension=zend/ZendOptimizer.so
zend_extension_ts=zend/TS/ZendOptimizer.so

6) Upload the php5.ini file to the root

That should do it.

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