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PHP Encoder 10
Version 10.2 of the ionCube PHP Encoder for software protection makes it easy to protect PHP source code from easy observation, theft and change by compiling to bytecode. PHP licensing features built into the Pro and Cerberus editions also allow licensing PHP scripts to control where PHP code runs, and files can also have a time expiry. Non-PHP code such as XML can also be encrypted.
Three editions of the ionCube PHP Encoder (Basic, Pro and Cerberus) all offer compiled PHP encoding using obfuscated bytecode, plus optional encryption of non-PHP files. Pro and Cerberus also include PHP licensing features for time expiry and restricting where code can be used, allowing licensing models to be effectively and easily implemented.
The PHP Encoder is available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X. The Windows and OS X Encoders come with a powerful and easy to use GUI, and all editions also include command line Encoders for easy automation. The Pro and Cerberus Encoders also include tools for license file creation.
ionCube Encoded files run on a wide range of operating systems including Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and others, and PHP versions up to PHP 7.3. Support for other platforms is available on request.
Version 10.2 includes Dynamic and External Keys which offer the greatest level of protection for compiled bytecode.
Which Encoder do I Need?
The following guide will help you choose the right Encoder edition for your needs.
Product Developers: Pro or Cerberus
Pro and Cerberus provide PHP encoding plus the ability to create license files for your products. License files can protect your scripts against unauthorised use by locking to specific machines. They can also time expire, which is ideal for releasing evaluation versions. The Windows Pro or Cerberus Encoder also comes with a license generator for Linux, which may be useful for automating license generation from a web server.
Website Designers: Pro, consider Cerberus
As a designer, you may wish to provide early versions of your work to the client before completion. You want the code to run, but not forever. Pro and Cerberus allow you protect your files to expire at some point in the future, allowing clients to try protected code for a limited time.
Enterprise Customers: Basic, consider Pro or Cerberus
The main requirement is likely to be code protection, and the basic version is sufficient for this task. If you would also like to lock files to their intended server, then Pro and Cerberus allow this.
Website Owners: Basic, consider Pro or Cerberus
Your website files are likely to be specific just to your needs, and so the main requirement is encoding. The Basic version offers this, while Pro or Cerberus would reduce the risk of any stolen files being run on another server.
Continuous Integration: Pro and Cerberus CI Edition
The CI Edition is aimed for users who encode as part of a CI pipeline, where flexibility of temporary machine licenses is beneficial. This product comes with 2 license slots, more can be purchased as required, and license activation and deactivation can be used to control a license at the start and end of session. License allocations are also released every 24 hours and can be activated for a new instance if a previous session failed before license deactivation.
Please view our product comparison for a summary.
Encoding Benefits
PHP scripts can be easily read, changed and run on any PHP enabled system. Encoding PHP offers important benefits.
Product Developers: protect and license your code before distribution. Time restricting is ideal for protecting evaluation copies, and server/domain based locking helps secure revenue from multiple domain deployments.
Website Designers: protect your creative work and a revenue stream from future script updates.
Enterprise Customers: successfully enforce internal change control policies by avoiding untracked software tweaks that may get lost on a site reinstall or server move.
Website Owners: hide sensitive data and protect scripts from unauthorised changes that may go unnoticed indefinitely, and be a serious security and data protection risk.
· Protect PHP scripts with compiled bytecode for best performance and protection.
· Use optional encryption keys that are not stored but generated only when needed (Dynamic Keys). Our unique feature gives greatly increased protection over alternatives that store a decryption key in the protected file or that do not offer encryption at all.
· Produce encoded PHP files to run on the latest PHP 7.3 and earlier.
· Use PHP language features up to PHP 7.2.
· Encrypt non-PHP files such as XML and templates.
· Generate license files to restrict access to encoded files (Pro/Cerberus editions).
· Enable one way transformation (obfuscation) of variables and function, method and class names.
· Encode PHP shell scripts.
· Prevent file tampering through use of digital signatures.
· Prevent replacement of encoded files by others.
· Generate files to expire on a given date or after a time period (Pro/Cerberus editions).
· Restrict files to run on any combination of IP addresses and/or server names (Pro/Cerberus editions).
· Restrict files to run on specific MAC addresses (Cerberus edition).
· Integrate with the ionCube Package Foundry.
· Add readable comments to encoded files for custom copyright, license details etc.
· Have custom messages and custom handling when files expire or aren't permissioned to run.
· And more!
The ionCube Standalone PHP Encoder is the leading script protection solution for PHP based software.
Launched in 2002, the ionCube Encoder was the first truly affordable, robust and fully featured encoding solution for PHP. It is now an established industry standard solution, trusted by developers in over 150 countries around the world, to encode PHP. It has led the way with features often immitated but unrivaled, and now with integration of the ionCube package Foundry, provides the only solution that in seconds and with a single click can secure your code, and produce a self contained installer to install and deploy your protected product to a local or remote server.
ionCube protection uses 100% compiled PHP, and utilising a closed source execution engine, ionCube Encoding tools deliver the best performance and PHP source code protection of any encryptor solution currently available. With features to meet the demands of both small and enterprise scale applications, the ionCube Encoder's unrivaled PHP protection, performance, and all round flexibility and featureset, is the ideal and only serious no-compromise solution for protecting PHP.
All ionCube Encoders offer a sophisticated command line tool. This is essential for exploiting the advantages that automated encoding can offer. The Windows and OS X versions also include a powerful Encoder GUI. The GUI is easy to use, offers high-speed encoding, and is packed with features to maximise your productivity and simplify product deployment. In addition, a low cost GUI upgrade extends the standard features adding builtin ZIP and tar.gz archiving, automatic FTP support and a dynamically customisable GUI that can prompt for user defined project-specific parameters.
The ionCube PHP Encoder is available in 3 variants for Windows, OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
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Entry Level (Basic) |
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Cerberus |
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Lifetime License |
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Compiled Code Encoding |
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Licensing Features |
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MAC Address based licensing |
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Available Encoder Platforms |
Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD |
Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD |
Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD |
The Windows and OS X Encoders come with a GUI. The Special Edition GUI is an upgrade adding support for automatic archiving of encoded projects, a simple FTP client for FTP transfer after encoding, and a unique and innovative concept called dynamic fields. Please see the GUI User Guide for more details.
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