IonCube
What is IonCube? Precisely how does IonCube work and when do you really need it for your PHP applications?
Lots of script-driven apps, particularly paid content management systems, encode their files so as to ensure that they won't be reverse engineered or tampered with. Most of them use an app known as ionCube PHP Encoder to do this, so, in case you purchase a paid script and you wish to set it up in a hosting account, an instrument known as ionCube Loader must be present on your server. Without having it, you won't be able to install the script or in case you somehow find a way to do that, it won't work efficiently because most of the script code will be encoded to a point where it can't be interpreted. In this light, you have to make sure that ionCube Loader is installed if you get a new hosting account and you wish to use some paid web app. If you acquire a shared web hosting account and the tool is not present, it cannot be added since your entire server PHP environment shall have to be compiled again.
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IonCube in Hosting
IonCube Loader is provided with all
hosting packages that we offer, so if you need it to install and run some script application which requires it, you can activate it with a click from the Advanced section of the Hepsia Control Panel. As you are able to switch the PHP release that's active for your account in the same section, you need to activate the tool for every new version which you set. If you're more skillful, you can take advantage of a php.ini file in a domain or subdomain folder and set the PHP version as well as the status of ionCube Loader for this particular site only, without affecting the whole account. In this way you are able to manage both new and older script applications for multiple sites in the same account - something that you won't be able to do with a lot of other hosting suppliers out there.