My hosting is php 5.4.28 and Apsona works fine.

Locally Xampp is on 183-4 (php 5.5.11) which doesn't work: I have to use 182 (php 5.4.27) when I need Apsona.

The "re-coding" is fixing a few functions in apsona_functions.php.
I spent about 10 minutes on it about a year ago without success (early adopter that I used to be...) so I was just wondering if someone had fixed it yet so I can bin the older Xampp install.