How to Install ionCube Loader? (Step by Step Tutorial)

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If you need to encrypt PHP code in your application, then a very popular choice is ionCube , which has been designed to integrate with both small and enterprise-level applications.

Typically, PHP source code is first passed through the ionCube encoder before an application is distributed. This protects the code from being human-readable or edited.

However, by default, encrypted PHP source code cannot be executed directly on the server. It needs to be decrypted before the PHP engine can process it.

This is where the ionCube loader comes into play.

Introduction
First released in 2002, it is a PHP extension that decrypts (previously encrypted) code on the fly and prepares it for execution alongside the rest of the PHP application.

It's all about security. If a PHP application contains proprietary bahrain phone number data code/algorithms, or software licensing features are required, then using ionCube is an ideal solution to protect your source code.

To encode PHP files you first need to purchase the ionCube encoder. There is also an online version of the encoder available which includes support for encrypting PHP code for free for testing purposes (more on this below).

As for the ionCube loader, it is free for anyone to download and install on their server. There are several different versions of ionCube loader available, each designed for a specific system (Linux, Windows, macOS, etc.), and 32-bit or 64-bit architectures.

Once downloaded, you will need to install the version of the ionCube loader that matches the version of PHP you are running on your server, as each available download contains multiple versions of the ionCube loader for all the different versions of PHP .