Just bought nucoder and phpdock but after encoding a file Iand running it I get:

Fatal error: Failed to decode file "C:\Documents and Settings\dan\Desktop\docker\web\index.php", update loader to version (2.0), visit http://www.nusphere.com/ in Unknown on line 0

Any ideas?

There is no such error messages like "failed to decode" in the NuCoder/PhpExpress products. They do not decode anything because it's even not possible to decode. It may fail to load the encoded file and/or fail to run it. From the other part of the message that you probably replicated 1:1, it asked you to update the loader (phpexpress) to version 2.0. It may make sense if you have files encoded with NuCoder 2.0. Such files can not be loaded by PhpExpress released prior to 2.0. Although, I have to note that backward compatibility is provided and you can use PhpExpress 2.0 to load any encoded files up to version 2.0. For example, if you have files encoded with NuCoder 1.4, they will work fine under PhpExpress 2.0.
I'd recommend you to run phpinfo and check phpexpress version. If it is 1.4 or 1.3, you need to update to version 2.0.

1. create new worksapce
2. create new project
3. create new file index.php:

4. Encode project in PhpEd
5. Windows Error: AppName: nu-coder.exe AppVer: 2.0.0.2019 ModName: nu-coder.exe ModVer: 2.0.0.2019 Offset: 00002f1f
6. Encode manually with command line:



7. rename index.php to index.old.php
8. rename index2.php to index.php
9. copy index.php to C:\Program Files\nusphere\phpdock\web (overwrite calculator index.php)
10. Run php dock
11. Get error:


That is the simplest test I can think of and it fails awefully!
You want screenshots? Hell, I'll record the whole process for you as it takes 5 minutes!!!!
Like so many others, I LOVE PhpEd but nucoder and php dock are way too beta for retail....

Have you done what dmitri suggested yet?

This error (my emphasis included):



Seems to indicate that you have not.

I'll also add that when I first got notification of NuCoder 2.0 being out of beta (roughly the same time you first reported your error) PhpExpress 1.4 was still the dl option for that product. This has since been updated, and I can see PhpExpress 2.0 available.

Yes, ok so now I can get it to work by manually updating the dll. I guess I made the crazy assumption that The latest version of PhpDock would come with the latest version of NuCoder.

My lesson: Assume nothing. Manually configure everything. Try not to get too upset when things don't work the first (or second) time.

But it still doesn't explain why I get a windows error when I try to encode from PhpEd!!!

Well, the products are released in different times. When the latest PhpDock was done, only version#1.4 of PhpExpress was available. Now, we are working on the update and it will be available in the next few days.

Thanks for your patience and very friendly posts that support our work more than anything else.