11.2. Installing PhpExpress
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## 11.2. Installing PhpExpress

NuSphere PhpExpress is a regular PHP extension, which makes it easy to install and deploy. You can download PhpExpress freely from

`http://www.nusphere.com/products/phpexpress.htm`

To install NuSphere PhpExpress do the following:

1. Open your `php.ini` file for editing

2. Add line `zend_extension_ts=c:\full\path\to\phpexpress-php-x.x.dll` if you are deploying on Windows, or `zend_extension=/full/path/to/phpexpress-php-x.x`.so if you are deploying on Unix, Linux or Mac OS operating systems

3. Copy `phpexpress-php-x.x.dll` or `phpexpress-php-x.x`.so in the PHP extensions directory specified in `php.ini` file.

4. Stop and Start Apache if you are running PHP as Apache module.

5. [Optional] Execute call to `phpinfo()` function and make sure that PhpExpress is properly installed Once PhpExpress is installed on the server, you can execute PHP Scripts encoded with Nu-Coder as well as regular, not encoded PHP scripts. In both cases you will gain an improved performance in the execution of the scripts.

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