Cliff Hirsch cliff-at-pinestream.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:
I am integrating a commercial php shopping cart that uses Ioncube to protect
some of the source. I've already encountered one problem where Ioncube is not
compatible with the Zend Studio Server debugger and wonder how it will work
with Zend Optimizer and opcode caching software like APC.
I'm wondering whether anyone has had experience with Ioncube -- good, bad or
ugly. Any other unexpected gotchas that I should know about before deploying
this in a production enviroment?
Cliff
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I would review the license to see how it tries to restrict you from
decoding and viewing/modifying the encoded portions. This becomes an
issue when time has passed, they no longer support the product or
perhaps are no longer responsive, or you have other problems you cannot
resolve (such as phone home or security flaws).
It's a fact of life that encryption engines get cracked eventually, and
when your competitors (including hackers) know better than you what your
code is doing, you have an issue.
Currently the hottest area of search engine spamming is the CMS exploit
- using security flaws in popular CMSs to insert back links onto
people's web sites without their knowledge nor consent.
-=john andrews
Competitive Webmaster and Search Optimizer
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who else has access to your log files? When they were last archived? Where
those archives are? --John Andrews Competitive Webmaster and SEO Blogging at
http://www.johnon.com
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