I'm in the process of changing hosts. With my current host there was a problem running News Portal on PHP 5.2.5 as you stated:
PHP 5.2.5 does not correctly load ioncube due to a problem in the dl() function in this versio of php.
you will need to have your hosting service install it on the server or create you custom php.ini files to load it.
Do you know if this issue has been resolved in PHP 5.2.6?
Thanks
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