XAMPP ionCube Loader Tutorial – Install ionCube Loader on XAMPP

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1.  Download ionCube Loader zip or exe installer from the ionCube website:  http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php  To get the correct ionCube Loader download you will need to look at your PHP Server phpinfo() information (see Example XAMPP Phpinfo information below).  Download the appropriate zip/exe file installer based on your phpinfo Compiler and Thread safety information that you will find in phpinfo.

Note:  Thread Safety enabled means thread-safe.  Thread Safety disabled means Non-TS/non thread-safe.

Note:  To create a phpinfo file to view your phpinfo.  Create a php file called phpinfo.php and add the PHP phpinfo(); function in that file and open the file in your Browser.  Example:  http://localhost/phpinfo.php.

2.  Install/unzip the ioncube loader to \xampp\php (or whatever xampp directory/folder name you have created).  You should end up with this folder \xampp\php\ioncube\ after installing the exe or if you want you can just unzip the files and then manually create this folder and copy all the files into this folder.

3.  Edit your php.ini file here – \php\php.ini (or if you have your php.ini file in another location then edit that php.ini file). Add this zend_extension directive shown below in your php.ini file and stop and restart your Apache Server.

[ionCube Loader]
zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ioncube\ioncube_loader_win_5.4.dll"

Important Note:  This zend_extension directive above MUST come before any other zend_extension directives in your php.ini file. At the time this tutorial was created (3-20-2013) the correct ioncube_loader extension for XAMPP is the one shown below. XAMPP is using PHP5.4.x in the version that is currently installed on my system.  The ionCube Loader version should match your PHP Server version.  5.4 => 5.4

Troubleshooting Note:  If you run into problems. Copy the \xampp\php\ioncube\loader-wizard.php file to the root of any of your XAMPP websites.

Example XAMPP websites:  localhost/loader-wizard.php, example.local/loader-wizard.php, example.dev/loader-wizard.php and launch this file in your Browser.  Example:  http://localhost/loader-wizard.php.  This will start the ionCube Loader troubleshooting wizard, which will tell you exactly what is wrong.

Example XAMPP Phpinfo information 

PHP Version 5.4.7

 

System	Windows NT 6.1 build 7601 (Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1) i586
Build Date	Sep 12 2012 23:44:56
Compiler	MSVC9 (Visual C++ 2008)
Architecture	x86
Configure Command	cscript /nologo configure.js “–enable-snapshot-build” “–disable-isapi” “–enable-debug-pack” “–without-mssql” “–without-pdo-mssql” “–without-pi3web” “–with-pdo-oci=C:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared” “–with-oci8=C:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared” “–with-oci8-11g=C:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient11\sdk,shared” “–enable-object-out-dir=../obj/” “–enable-com-dotnet=shared” “–with-mcrypt=static” “–disable-static-analyze” “–with-pgo”
Server API	Apache 2.4 Handler Apache Lounge
Virtual Directory Support	enabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path	C:\Windows
Loaded Configuration File	C:\xampp\php\php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files	(none)
Additional .ini files parsed	(none)
PHP API	20100412
PHP Extension	20100525
Zend Extension	220100525
Zend Extension Build	API220100525,TS,VC9
PHP Extension Build	API20100525,TS,VC9
Debug Build	no
Thread Safety	enabled
Zend Signal Handling	disabled
Zend Memory Manager	enabled
Zend Multibyte Support	provided by mbstring
IPv6 Support	enabled
DTrace Support	disabled
Registered PHP Streams	php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, zip, compress.zlib, compress.bzip2, phar
Registered Stream Socket Transports	tcp, udp
Registered Stream Filters	convert.iconv.*, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, zlib.*, bzip2.*

 

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine: Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.2.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2012, by ionCube Ltd.

 

 

[zmirli]

The main issue is that when entering zend extension in php.ini , it is to remember that type it on the first line before <php> tag.

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