IonCube Loader is a tool, that is required to run files that are encoded with ionCube PHP Encoder. The aforementioned is an app employed to make PHP code human unreadable, as a way to protect it from reverse engineering and / or unauthorized usage. Lots of script-driven apps, particularly community forums, content management systems and e-commerce solutions are protected with ionCube PHP Encoder, therefore if you obtain a script and you find that ionCube is on the list of hosting environment prerequisites, you need to make sure that your hosting server has the instrument pre-installed. While it's not that difficult to install it if you have your own server, it's close to impossible to do that on a shared web hosting server as the PHP environment shall have to be precompiled and all clients on the server shall be affected.

IonCube in Shared Website Hosting

IonCube Loader is supplied with each shared website hosting that we offer and you are able to activate it at any time with just a couple of clicks, so you will be able to use script apps that require it. You're able to do this through the PHP Configuration section of the Hepsia Control Panel and all it'll take to enable or disable ionCube is to click a button. The change will take effect within a minute, which means that you are able to go ahead and set up the app that you'd like right away. The very same section allows you to change the PHP release that is active for your account, as we support a variety of releases on our cutting-edge cloud platform. If you move to a release that you have not used to date, you'll need to activate ionCube Loader again. More advanced users can use a php.ini file in a particular domain folder in order to set a PHP version different from the one for the whole account or enable/disable ionCube Loader.