Protecting Your PHP Source Code With ionCube Encoder

By Quentin Zervaas, 8 June 2010 PHP Download PDF (1 comment)

Summary

In this article I showed you how you can protect your PHP code using the ionCube PHP Encoder. While I only showed your the absolute basics, there are many other features available with the encoder that make it ideal for projects of all sizes.
Some of those features include:

• Adding a licensing mechanism to your code so only license-holders can use your code
• Handling various events in the loading process (such as if the loader isn't found)
• Writing custom properties to an encoded file

Additionally, if you use a tool such as Phing to simplify your PHP application build process, there is a built-in hook to run all of your code through ionCube PHP encoder.

Resources

• ionCube PHP Encoder

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