A company loses its original, unencrypted source code due to hardware failure or poor version control, leaving them with only the encoded production files.
Legitimate uses of IonCube the free ioncube_loader (not a decoder) to run encoded PHP files on your server. Ioncube Decoder 7.4
The human-readable PHP source code is compiled into Zend OPcodes (the low-level instructions the PHP engine actually executes). A company loses its original, unencrypted source code
"Decoding" often refers to the attempt to turn an encoded file back into readable PHP source code. Official Stance A company loses its original