ionCube Loader on Windows 64-bit running PHP 5.6.8 not working

Question

I have tried to configure ionCube Encoder on my Windows 10 PC running PHP 5.6.8 but without success. After downloading the encoder zip file from ioCube Loaders I copied the " ioncube_loader_win_5.6.dll " to "C:\\xampp\\php\\ext". Then I updated my php.ini file to loaded the encoder

[ionCube Loader]
zend_extension="C:\xampp\php\ext\ioncube_loader_win_5.6.dll"

and restarted apache, but when I test it from then command prompt using "php -v", it does not load. See my result

php -v
Failed loading C:\xampp\php\ext\ioncube_loader_win_5.6.dll
PHP 5.6.8 (cli) (built: Apr 15 2015 15:07:09)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

I also tried setting it up using the loader-wizard, but it did not work too. Anyone with useful information will be of great help right now. Thanks

Answer 1

This Post is old but it might help other people. You have just to replace to dll. I had the same problem when using the 64bits dll. Replacing it with the x86 dll did the tric