Bug vbAdvertise generating error even when disabled

[Simit Patel]

Hello,

I'm running an old vbulletin 3.8.7 and PHP 5.2. i've bought a number of products made by dragonbyte's developers, including vbcredits, vbcommerce, vboptimise, vbadvertise, etc. the administrators to my server recently made a mistake and upgraded php to 5.3 when they shouldn't have; they since put 5.2 back on, but then I started getting the following vbulletin error:

Site error: the file /home/informed/public_html/plugins/advertise_plugins.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so to be installed by the site administrator.

*you'll notice the error references vbadvertise; i've disabled vbcredits, vbadvertise, vbcommerce, yet the error remains.

ionCube PHP Loader is installed, i tried adding a reference to it in the php.ini file and the .htaccess file, and I even disabled the product using sql statements -- yet the error persists. i'm wondering how the error can persist even when the product is disabled? any help here would be most appreciated -- my site is currently down

thanks
simit

 

[Fillip H.]

Hi there,

Could you please login with the account that purchased the products and respond to this thread? We ask this as a security measure, to make sure the original account hasn't been compromised (or if it has, to help you recover access).

Thanks!

 

[Simit Patel]

Hi there,

Could you please login with the account that purchased the products and respond to this thread? We ask this as a security measure, to make sure the original account hasn't been compromised (or if it has, to help you recover access).

Thanks!

i forgot my password and the email i used to register for that account no longer works. is there any other way to validate?

 

[Fillip H.]

Hi Simit,

If you can tell me the email address attached to the old account just now, I will merge the accounts for you

 

[Simit Patel]

i sent you a PM; please let me know if you received it.

 

[Fillip H.]

I've made the required changes

If you PM me with an FTP and AdminCP account, I can look into this for you @ your site