The ionCube PHP Encoder makes it easy to protect your PHP 4 & 5 source code, including sources using the PHP 5.3 language, from easy observation, theft and change. Encoded files run on a wide range of operating systems such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and others.

Introduction: http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php

Pricing: http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php?page=pricing

Evaluation version download: http://www.ioncube.com/encoder_eval_download.php

Encoding PHP source code:-

- Download ionCube PHP Encoder
- Install the software
- Run the software
- Provide your source and traget directory for the PHP code to be encoded.
- If you are encoding php file, then give the PHP Encoding extension as ‘php’.
- Execute the program.
- The encoded file will be stored in the specified target directory.

Running the Encoded PHP file:-

For this, you need to have “ionCube Loader“. ionCube Loader is a PHP extension that works to decode PHP scripts previously encoded by the ionCube PHP Encoder package.

Download latest version of ionCube Loader from here: http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php

Install the ionCube Loader PHP extension. The installation instruction is given over here: http://www.ioncube.com/loader_installation.php

ionCube Loader Installation instruction for Windows

I am using Windows OS, WAMP server and PHP version 5.2.6.

- Download zip file from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php from the row where OS/Platform is Windows VC9 (x86)

In this page, you will see different package for different OS. For windows only, there are four versions present (Windows VC6 (x86), Windows VC6 (Non-TS) (x86), Windows VC9 (x86), and Windows VC9 (Non-TS) (x86))

Non-TS means Non Thread Safe.

The difference between VC6 and VC9 for Windows OS is given below:-

VC6 Versions are compiled with the legacy Visual Studio 6 compiler.
VC9 Versions are compiled with the Visual Studio 2008 compiler and have improvements in performance and stability.

- Extract the zip file

- Copy loader-wizard.php to your root directory. In my case it is C:\wamp\www\

- My PHP version is 5.2.6. So, I will copy ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll to C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\. If you are using PHP version 5.1 then you need to copy the ioncube_loader_win_5.1.dll file. It’s the similar case for PHP 5.3. The folder path is not compulsory to be: C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\. You can keep it wherever you like.

- Open php.ini file and write the following line:
zend_extension_ts = C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll.
Remember that in my case, I have stored ioncube_loader_win_5.2.dll file in C:\wamp\bin\php\ioncube\ path.

- Restart apache.

Now, you can browse the encoded php files.

Hope this helps. Thanks.

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