Zend Platform Built-In Services and Extensions

Services are the backbone of Platform's production level features. To allow a wider control over the production level features, in this chapter we will describe the different services used by Platform and how they can be enabled and disabled.

Note:

Before disabling Services and removing extensions from your php.ini make sure you are aware of the following dependences:
In Unix, Linux, i5/OS and Mac
A message will be added to the log indicating that an extension with dependences was disabled and the implications of this action.
In Windows
'Zend Platform Job Queue' 'Zend Platform Pinger' and 'Zend Platform Collector Center' depend on 'Zend Platform MySQL'
'Zend Platform Action' depends on 'Zend Platform Collector Center'
Stopping a service will result in a message that all its dependants’ will be also stopped, for example stopping ZPMySQL will display that ZPJobQ, ZPPinger, ZPCollector and ZPAction will be stopped.
Warning: Stopping ZPMySQl will disable the Administration User Interface for all operating systems.

Services are part of the installed package and in some situations are already running out of the box. This is determined according to the chosen installation method. The Platform Installer has two types of installation methods, Custom and Express. The Custom installation prompts users to decide which services to run and the Express method only runs three essential components (PHP Extensions: Optimizer, Download Server, Accelerator, Monitor, Zend Cache and Debugger).

Naturally, services only run according to selected license type. Therefore, Development and Enterprise Licenses will include the Session Clustering, Job Queues and Java Bridge services. These services will be applicable either when selected in the Custom installation or available from the Setup Tool, if not selected in the Custom installation or after installing using the Express method.

Note:

If you are using Platform as a debugger (Remote Debugger) for use with Studio, the recommended installation method is express. This will provide only the essential services for using the debugger.