[Dukerev]

I've spent the last few hours trying to install ModernBill. Maybe someone here knows the answer to my problem.

Well this is how I started my install. i read the instructions at: http://manual.modernbill.com/adminhe...stallation.htm and I thought to myself it was pretty easy.

1. Created a new SQL data base
2. uploaded the tarball using the binary transfer mode
3. unpacked it using the file manager utility in cpanel
4. edited 'config.locale.php' as instructed by site above
5. deleted .htaccess in the install directory and dir 'order'

After doing that, I go and try to execute install script at: [install dir]/install_v4/, I get the following page:

Zend Optimizer not installed
This file was encoded by the Zend Encoder / Zend SafeGuard Suite

In order to run it, please install the freely available Zend Optimizer, version 2.1.0 or later.

What is the Zend Optimizer?
The Zend Optimizer is one of the most popular PHP plugins for performance-improvement, and has been freely available since the early days of PHP 4. It improves performance by taking PHP's intermediate code through multiple Optimization Passes, which replace inefficient code patterns with efficient code blocks. The replacement code blocks perform exactly the same operations as the original code, only faster.

In addition to performance-improvement, the Zend Optimizer also enables PHP to transparently load files encoded by the Zend Encoder or Zend SafeGuard Suite.

The Zend Optimizer is a freely-available product from Zend Technologies. Zend Technologies is the company that develops the scripting engine of PHP, also known as the Zend Engine.

Hoping someone has encountered this problem before and can suggest to me a solution

Another note: I started a support ticket and the people at HostNine told me:

Please note, we only provide the license, no support or installation. Your license comes with free support from Modernbill. Also, please ignore any Zend v2 errors you may see when installing as we use Zend v3 on our servers.

The error I got earlier cannot be ignored, it just doesn't continue with the installation. I'm going to try Ver.5 of Modern Bill tomorrow and see if this work.