NukeCoder

Joined: Nov 13, 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Fargo, ND

I have purchased and installed digital shop for my forums as a module, but I get this error:
Site error: the file E:\www\website\website\clanforum\dfa\modules\Digital_Shop\lib\init.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll to be installed by the site administrator.
Can anybody tell me what this is and how to fix it?

Code Authors · Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 335

You might have got a quicker response posting in the Digital Shop forum but it looks like you need the Ioncube loader file.
By the look of the error, you are on a Windows server. You can get the free ioncube decoder file from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php
Download the package, unzip it and the upload the correct file to the ioncude directory on your website.

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

Installing the ioncube loaders can be as simple as downloading the correct file and uploading to your site. Sometimes it can be a bit more involved, depending on your setup. When you ran the installer, did it offer to download the ioncube loader automatically? I don't see how you could make it through the whole installation script without ioncube already being installed.

There are some good instructions on the link in Guardian's post and you can also look at this post: http://www.nukecoder.com/ftopict-345-ioncube.html
If you get stuck I can help you get running, but don't forget to restart you webserver if you make changes to your php.ini.

On a side note: running windows for php scripts will usually cause more problems then it is worth. If your host allows you to switch to linux, I would recommend doing so.