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encrypting the php code (hiding the code:)

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:03 pm
by macewan
Besides using Zend's product is has anyone experimented with an alternative way to hide you code?

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:21 pm
by Stoker
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..

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:09 pm
by macewan
thank you for providing those links. shame that most of the software is mswindows software. tisk.

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:47 pm
by macewan
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

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 6:37 am
by twigletmac
Moved to PHP - Normal.

Mac

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:08 am
by Stoker
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)

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:41 am
by pootergeist
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