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What is Oxrion?

Oxrion is a source code protection system for PHP. It lets you ship your applications to customers and servers without exposing your source code — protecting your work from copying, theft, and reverse-engineering.

If you’ve used PHP code protection before, Oxrion will feel familiar — but it was built to solve one of the biggest day-to-day frustrations with the usual approach.

What makes Oxrion different

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Oxrion protects your code once, producing a single encrypted file that runs across multiple PHP versions.

  • You protect your code once and download one file.
  • That file runs whether your customers are on PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, or 8.4.
  • You don’t maintain version-specific packages, and you don’t re-encode when a customer upgrades PHP.

For anyone distributing commercial PHP software, this removes a whole category of busywork and support headaches.

How the pieces fit together

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Oxrion has two sides: the Cloud, where you protect your code, and the Loader, which runs it.

Oxrion Cloud is where the work happens. You upload a PHP file — or an entire project as a ZIP — choose how it should be protected, and get back the encrypted result with your project structure preserved. The Cloud also includes a Licenser (to issue licenses tied to a domain and expiry) and Recovery (to restore protected files back to source).

The Oxrion Loader is a small, free PHP extension installed on the server that runs your protected code — typically your customer’s server. Install it once, and protected files run like normal PHP. The Loader is free to distribute, so you can ship it alongside your application.

Built-in protection

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Every file Oxrion produces is tamper-proof. If even a single byte of a protected file is changed, the Loader refuses to run it. There’s no partial execution and no silent failure — a modified file simply won’t run, which keeps your protected code intact exactly as you shipped it.

Free tools that don’t depend on the Cloud

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Two of Oxrion’s tools — Licenser and Recovery — are also available as standalone downloads. Once you have them, they work completely offline:

  • Recovery lets you restore a protected file back to its original source — using a private key that only you hold (available when Recovery Mode was enabled during encryption).
  • Licenser lets you generate license files for your customers, on your own machine, whenever you need them.

You’re not locked to the Cloud for these. Generate a license at 3 a.m. with no internet, restore your own code from a backup years later — it’s yours to run independently.

Where to go next

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