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macewan
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encrypting the php code (hiding the code:)

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Besides using Zend's product is has anyone experimented with an alternative way to hide you code?
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Put it under the bed.. :P

One way is simple scrambling, it doesnt hide code but makes it difficult ot unscramble and use.. I assume that these may slow things down a bit..
http://www.sourcecop.com/
http://sourceguardian.com/products/phppro.htm

then there is
http://www.ioncube.com/
which I believe does a bytecode like encoding (like zend does)..

But when looking at the pricing and stuff on these things I would say you're better off with the Small Business Deal from Zend, editor, encoder, optimizer for under $300..
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thank you for providing those links. shame that most of the software is mswindows software. tisk.
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Stoker wrote:Put it under the bed.. :P

One way is simple scrambling, it doesnt hide code but makes it difficult ot unscramble and use

that's an interesting idea
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Moved to PHP - Normal.

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the two first links I provided where scramblers, perhaps there are some free ones out there?

The Zend software is not just for windows, I have the Linux Version myself and it is great, my old fvwm is messing up the search dialog in the editor/debugger but thats not Zends fault (I think)
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there is a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache system available from Turck MMCache though obviously you need admin server access to compile it.

subnote: don't ask me what it is like as I don't use it
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