Install ionCube loaders.

How to install Ioncube Loaders

Encoding application sources is a common practice when it comes to protecting/licensing source code. Not only for licensing, but it also ensures increased accuracy, minimizes storage space, and much more.

Today, Ioncube is one of the most popular and widely used solutions to prevent unauthorized access to your source code.

Ioncube Loader, What is it and how it is useful ?

Ioncube, a PHP extension provides two tools – Encoder to compile PHP files and Loader, which handles execution of such encrypted files and speed up the web pages. Ioncube makes it easy to protect your PHP source code from easy observation, theft and change by compiling to bytecode. Encoding your application sources offers many benefits

Developers: Helps in protecting and licensing your application sources.

Website Owners: Hides sensitive data and protect scripts from unauthorized changes.

Website Designers: Protect your creative work and a revenue stream from future script updates.

Now we get to know about Ioncube and it’s benefits, what’s next? Installation, now many questions pops up on our mind,

How to go ahead with this?

What version should I use?

Is the installation is that much hard?

The list goes on.

But what’s really involved?

Installing Ioncube loader simply involves two steps:

• Download the ioncube extension file – https://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php
• Include the line in php.ini to load the extension.

For Ubuntu, Debian, Windows :

It is important to choose the correct Ioncube version that suits your system settings. To know about your hosting system and environment follow the below steps:

• create a info.php in the root directory of your web server and add the following code :
  • <?php phpinfo(); ?>
• visit http://yourIP-or-yourdomain.com/info.php, gives you the required details.

Click here for Download Ioncube Loader for your server

For Server Side Install

Reference for Installation with Various Hosting providers as below: