Finally, ioncube_loader for php 5.3 is out; since php 5.3 is the default version in Fedora 12 this is really a great news.
Setup Loaders for ionCube Encoded Files System-Wide (Fedora)
Read http://www.ioncube.com/loader_installation.php. Download the loaders from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php: cd ~/software wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.bz2