什么是Ioncube
ionCube was founded in 2002, and introduced tools to protect software written using the PHP programming language from being viewed, changed, and run on unlicensed computers. The encoding technology grew out of earlier work on the PHP Accelerator project, and at first launch included an online encoding service where PHP scripts can be uploaded and an encoded version downloaded in return, and a command line tool for Linux soon after. The tools use the technique of compiling to bytecode prior to encoding so that source code is eliminated, and runtime overheads are reduced. A PHP extension called the ionCube Loader handles the reading and execution of encoded files at run time. —— [ 维基百科 ]
翻译过来就是说,ioncube是一个保护使用PHP编程语言编写的软件不被查看的工具。这些工具使用在编码之前编译为字节码的技术,从而消除了源代码,减少