Zend/Ioncube

[sifuhall]

Hello,

 

I have heard many great reviews of WHMC and would like to try it.

 

However, our server already has Zend installed and I see that WHMC requires Ioncube.

 

Do most people have both Zend and Ioncube installed?

 

Will having both installed cause issues on my server?

[trine]

under most circumstances, these can cohabitate without any problems.

 

unless you are running some bizarre setup, you should be fine!

[l0gic]

I can confirm I have Zend and ioncube at the same time. They cohabitate (nice word usage, trine) quite nicely under my conditions (which are the default).

[trine]

[Adamski]

I also have both running with no problemo!

[Blueberry3.14]

Odd. I'm not discounting what any of you are saying, as I have run them both also (just reinstalled Zend, after a server crash), but a senior member on the Zend forums said having both installed can cause a problem.

 

::shrugs::

 

http://www.zend.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&S=5afda0da78945f81fd63bc28df5b4b6f&th=3728&goto=10364#msg_10364

[ckh]

I've been running both zend and ioncube together for a couple years with no problems.

 

I think that what they are actually saying is that if a file is encoded with ioncube, the zend optimizer won't decode it which is the same if it's encoded with zend, the ioncube decoder won't decode it, which makes perfect sense.

 

I don't get the impression that they mean that the two won't co-exist with each other, which isn't the case at all.

[trine]

MaraBlue, I think you will find most problems associated with running both zo an ion result for versioning differences or what support php was built with. Again, it is quite rare that this happens on a well configured box. an example would be building zo with --enable-track-vars, as this sometimes causes zo to fail.

[Blueberry3.14]

MaraBlue, I think you will find most problems associated with running both zo an ion result for versioning differences or what support php was built with. Again, it is quite rare that this happens on a well configured box. an example would be building zo with --enable-track-vars, as this sometimes causes zo to fail.

 

Again, if you'll read what I said, I've run both with no problems as well.

 

I was pointing out that a "senior member" of the Zend forums said otherwise.

[trine]

I saw that ...

 

then the Zend Optimizer is not compatible with the ionCube PHP Loader and that may be what the problem actually is.

 

I would take a wild guess that he (jshucart) is referring to strange scenarios like what I mentioned above. He does not really specify much, except points fault at Ioncube... If you read on, it does look like the problem reported seems to be with ZO, since the users are saying that the scripts don't require ion at all, and so it really has nothing to do with Ioncube.

 

All I was saying that on occasion, we've seen certain setups and depending on how php was built had caused them not to function together, although very rare.

[ozmo]

IMHO the perfect scenario: Zend Platform 3.0 + IonCube Loader 3.2.2.