Installing Zend Server

Given that this book is targeting PHP 7, moving forward, we will grab a free trial version of the Zend Server and install it. We can do so by opening the official Zend page and clicking on the Download Free Trial button:

Assuming that we are using the fresh Ubuntu 17.04 installation, Zend's download service is likely to offer us a tar.gz archive download:

Once downloaded and unpacked, we need to trigger the install_zs.sh command with the PHP version argument as follows:

Upon installation completion, the console gives ...

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