Are there any plans to fix the Zend Guard Loader dependency, which only supports PHP 5.4 or lower? Ubuntu 14.04 and SUSE 12 ship with PHP 5.5, which came out 20 months ago. XAMPP is on PHP 5.5 and 5.6. PHP 7.0 is coming out in October this year (2015). PHP 5.4 has been relegated to security patches for another 6 months, while bug fixes have already died off. After that, I have to buy Red Hat or SUSE support and hope for the best. I know the lack of PHP 5.5 and PHP 5.6 support isn’t directly the fault of Scriptcase, but my company has paid them full money for a product that is now only partly supported because of Scriptcase’s decision to use Zend Guard.
Scriptcase either needs to get Zend to support current PHP versions in Zend Guard Loader, or drop them. Since I don’t pay Zend anything directly, I don’t have the leverage of a paying customer to get Zend Guard Loader fixed. As it stands, installation is a huge pain because I have to jump through all the hoops of tracking down unsupported packages to downgrade my PHP version. At best I can still get security fixes, but bug fixes for PHP are out the window now, as are nifty new features like the large file upload support, interactive php debugger, try-catch finally block, etc… I’ve heard recommendations for ionCube PHP Encoder, which at least supports PHP 5.5.