[Volcomstarr]

Hi,

It's more than 7 years that I'm using ionCube but there's one thing that I still don't understand. Let me take as example the popular WHMCS. It's all obfuscated wit ionCube but in a way that I'm unable to reproduce for my scripts.

WHMCS provide you a single zip that contains all php files obfuscated. Such files can work on PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and with IonCube loaders 10.1.0 or later. How do they do that?

I'd like to offer their same backward compatibility to my customers. Right now I'm forced to provide them one package of each version of PHP. Moreover it seems that I'm unable to support people with "crazy" configuration like for example PHP 7.2 with outdated ionCube.

How should I configure my encoder? I mean if I select Encoder 10.2 I can't select PHP 5.6, if I select 9.0 I can't use PHP 7.1 or later. I really don't get it. It seems that backward compatibility is not possible by design but people like WHMCS can do that.

Thanks

[alastair]

Hi,

As you have the version 10.2 Encoder you should be able to use the bundling feature to produce files that will run on PHP 5.6-7.2 (and 7.3 with the new Loaders that should be coming soon).

It sounds like you are using the GUI. You will need to use the current 10.2 encoders and then select "5.6 & 7.1" as the source language. That will produce encoded files that include encodings from the 5.6 and 7.1 encoders. Due to backwards compatibility in the ionCube Loaders, those files will then run on PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 with the corresponding ionCube Loader installed.

Our blog article at http://blog.ioncube.com/2018/03/08/ioncube-encoder-update-v10-2/ also shows how you can add other encodings to the 5.6 & 7.1 option.

If you need further information then please create a ticket in our Support Help Desk at https://support.ioncube.com
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Alastair

ionCube

[Volcomstarr]

Thanks