I can see a point though. If you develop an application that is going to be installed on a customer site, encrypting it in someway gives you a degree of protection, particularly if you sell it on an annual license basis. Without some sort of key, how can you ensure that they are not still using it even when they don't buy a new license?
Jeremy Burns Class Outfit http://www.classoutfit.com On 4 Nov 2011, at 09:13, WebbedIT wrote: > @Ryan: If you could not raise a smile at Andy's response in this > thread then you really could do with a weekend off. Your response is > nicer than Andy's but they both mean the same thing ... "Why on earth > do you need to protect your code?!?" > > @Rizki: I used to believe my code was golden and should be protected, > then I quickly realised my code was an unmanageable mess. CakePHP has > improved my code massively, but anyone who knows how to use CakePHP > could recreate whatever I develop fairly quickly if they so wanted > to. > > If you still want to encrypt your code then @majna has given the > answer ... zend does not come cheap though and you really do need to > ask yourself if giving into the paranoia is worth the expense. I have > paid for many licenses of PHP software and only once have I had to > decryptit (LemonStand) so even those with truly marketable libraries > of code do not protect it in this manner. > > HTH, Paul > > On Nov 3, 9:10 pm, majna <[email protected]> wrote: >> Protect as to encode your source code? >> Usinghttp://www.ioncube.com/orhttp://www.zend.com/en/products/guard/ > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
