You should workout good licensing deals with your clients because with enough motivation and time they will reverse engineer an encoded script. The PHP Obfuscator was intresting but you need to test your application again after you use it because of the changes it makes to the code.
Most people recommend good legal licensing and a good relationship, if that isn't possible I'd use MMCache or Zend Encoder and accept someone may reverse engineer it at some point, either of these programs are better than something that obscures the code because the store the optimized bytecode which will accelerate the program where an encrypted source file will slow you down, an obscured one shouldn't slow you down much if at all but then there is the testing thing :).
Jason
Ivo Fokkema wrote:
Hi,
I've actually been looking for this kind of things for a while as well. However, I would not want my client to install something to uncode the scripts (probably causing the scripts to be unencoded easier). I found these:
PHP OBFUSCATOR http://richard.fairthorne.is-a-geek.com/utils_obfuscate.php
Phrozen http://sourceforge.net/projects/phrozen/
POBS http://pobs.mywalhalla.net/
Anyone have any recommendations or experience with any?
-- Ivo
"Evan Nemerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Take a look at Turck MMCache (free) and Zend Encoder (not).
http://www.turcksoft.com/en/e_mmc.htm http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php
On Saturday 06 September 2003 01:59 pm, Charles Kline wrote:
What methods are available (ups and downs) for encrypting and serializing php applications for sale?
Thanks,
Charles
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