PHP IonCube Loader Error

Question

using local development ampps server. php 7.1 and apache 2.4 on ubuntu. on running php programs this is found in apache error_log

Cannot load the ionCube PHP Loader - it was built with configuration API320151012,NTS, whereas running engine is API320160303,NTS

Answer 1

This error indicates that you are using the Loader for the wrong version of PHP. PHP 7.0 has an API version 20151012 and 7.1 has 20160303, so you are using the Loader for PHP 7.0 by mistake. Download the Loaders package again, be careful to select the Loader for PHP 7.1 and then you should be fine.