Those users who have PHP version 5.2.5 should be made aware that the PHP development team has changed the way in which the dl() (Dynamic Loading) function works.

What does this mean to you?
It means that if you have one of our components installed and your hosting service upgrades your PHP version to 5.2.5, then your component will stop working.

How do you fix this?
There are 2 options.
1) Ask your hosting service to make syre that ioncube is installed on the server.
2)You download the ioncube loaders from ioncube.com for the operating system that your server has and php version 5.2.
Then you have to modify the php.ini file in the administrator dirctory and add the zend_extension command to the file.
zend_extension = /usr/home/public_html/administrator/ioncube/ioncubefilename.so;
create an ioncube directory in the administrator directory and place the ioncube loader file there.
In the above command, replace /usr/home/public_html with the path to your website.
If this doesn't work for you, please create a support ticket and I'll do what I can to help you.

Hi,
  for anyone using a coponent that is ioncube encoded, the server must have ioncube installed if the php version is 5.2.5.
Dynamic loading does not work propperly in that version of PHP. But strangely enough, it is only the ioncube loader that won't load. all the others like sourceguardian, do load.
There is a workaround that does work most of the time:
In the administrator directory, create a file php.ini
inside this file enter the command:
zend_extension = /enter your absolute path here/administrator/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so;
The above comand should be on a single line and include the ; at the end.
Of course, you shold replace "enter your absolute path here" with the absolute_path setting from your site settings.
The, create the folder /administrator/ioncube and place the ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so file in that directory.

Modification:
For windows users:
So, as you can see from the error message, you will need to change a couple of things.
zend_extension = C:/wamp/www/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so;
to
zend_extension_ts = C:/wamp/www/ioncube/ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll;


If you have any problems. please let me know.

Good question - feedback please? 

yes it work for 5.2.6