{"id":1410,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583598-how-to-enable-zend-opcache-and-ioncube-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:24:27","slug":"1583598-how-to-enable-zend-opcache-and-ioncube-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583598-how-to-enable-zend-opcache-and-ioncube-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Zend OPcache and ionCube at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">PHP extensions like Zend OPCache (former Zend Optimizer)<b> <\/b>and ionCube Loader are already <b>pre-installed<\/b> on all Web and Cloud hosting plans at Hostinger.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To enable them, go to <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b>&rarr; Manage, search for <b>PHP Configuration<\/b> on the left sidebar and click on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/dd9e3dc4-5363-45ef-97a5-c9b2a4b34225.jpg\" alt=\"The PHP Configuration menu option\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">There, open the <b>PHP extensions<\/b> tab and mark the checkboxes for:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>ioncube_loader <\/b>to enable ionCube Loader<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>opcache<\/b> to enable Zend OPCache<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/4dd898e4-531e-4b4c-ac44-f28225da3823.jpg\" alt=\"The list of available PHP extensions showing ioncube_loader and opcache, and how to enable them\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on <b>Save<\/b> to apply the changes.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #feedaf80;border-color: #fbc91633\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: IonCube is not available for PHP version 8, however, it&rsquo;s available for version 8.1 and above.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling the Zend OPcache and ionCube PHP extensions at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supported-technologies-and-functions"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583598-how-to-enable-zend-opcache-and-ioncube-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583598-pouvez-vous-installer-zend-opcache-ou-ioncube-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583598-bagaimana-cara-install-zend-opcache-or-ioncube-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583598-posso-instalar-o-zend-opcache-ou-o-ioncube-no-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}