protect source code

Hi,
Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
the customer or the host see my code.

Thanks.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:26:07 -0400, someone posing as toufik toufik chisled
in the wall:

> Hi,
> Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
> I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
> the customer or the host see my code.
>
> Thanks.

Lot's of ways.

1. Compile it - oh, wait this is php...

2. obsfucate it - there are many tricks to this.
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filesiteguy wrote:

> 1. Compile it - oh, wait this is php...

Use the Zend Encoder:
http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php

Regards,
Matthias

toufik toufik wrote:
> Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
> I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
> the customer or the host see my code.

One solution is

Zend Encoder:
http://www.zend.com/store/products/z...coder.php?home

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Hello,

On 10/05/2004 06:26 PM, toufik toufik wrote:
> Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
> I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
> the customer or the host see my code.

You may want to try RoadSend, the first and so far the only real PHP
compiler. It generates really executable code from PHP scripts, as
opposed to just encoded byte codes which is what PHP encoders do. Not
only it will protect your code irrevesibly but it seems extraordinarily
fast.

http://www.roadsend.com/

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Thanks friends.

"toufik toufik" <toufiki@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
> I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
> the customer or the host see my code.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

toufik toufik wrote:
> Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
> I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
> the customer or the host see my code.

Here's a FREE solution that I have installed:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/turck-mmcache/

I have yet to actually test it yet, but it looks good to me so far.
(I'll know more when I start testing it.)

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Don't use an obfuscator - there are several programs available on the
web (BeautifyPHP, and a class or two at phpclasses.org) that can
recover obfuscation.

"toufik toufik" <toufiki@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:KjE8d.10996$HO1.579737@news20.bellglobal.com. ..
> Hi,
> Is it possible to hide a source code PHP in order to protect it,
> I mean, I'm developpind a web solution for customers and I don't like that
> the customer or the host see my code.

You can obfuscate the source code.
This makes it typically unreadable by people.

Some claim that if you prettyprint an obfuscated
code, you can read it. Not if the comments
are gone, and the variable names are scrambled.
Then it becomes a hard problem in reverse-engineering.

See http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Produ...bfuscator.html.


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