The ionCube PHP Encoder and optional licensing system is the one-stop solution for protecting PHP source code and other files from prying eyes, theft and change. An optional licensing system permits time expiry and restricting where code can be used, allowing licensing models to be effectively and easily implemented. Available for Windows with an easy to use GUI, and command line versions for Linux, FreeBSD and OS X. Encoded files run on a wide range of operating systems. Encoding Benefits As 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. Ideal for protecting evaluation copies, the low once only purchase cost can quickly deliver a significant return on investment from increased sales. 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. Features...

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Which Encoder do I Need?

The PHP Encoder is available in 3 versions: Basic, Pro and Cerberus. The following guide will help you choose the right version for your needs.

Product Developers: Pro or Cerberus
Pro and Cerberus provide PHP encoding plus the abililty 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.

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