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Using Zend Guard Loader

You can use Zend Guard Loader, a free application, to decode your website's Zend files if you use PHP 5.3 on your Linux hosting account. For more information, see Viewing or Changing Your PHP Language Version.

NOTE: If you use any version of PHP other than 5.3 (for example, 5.2), you must use Zend Optimizer to decode your Zend files. For more information, see Using Zend Optimizer.

To enable Zend Guard Loader, you must either modify or create a php5.ini file that includes the following code at the beginning:

The line apc.enabled=0 disables APC, which you must do to you Zend Guard on our hosting accounts.

We strongly suggest not using Zend Guard unless you know your files are encoded for PHP 5.3. Files encoded with older versions of Zend Guard will not run under PHP 5.3 and trying to decode those files on your hosting account can corrupt them.

NOTE: We recommend backing up your php5.ini file before modifying it.

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