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Which php compilers allow me to sell the compiled software as commercial software?
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jaymoore_299 wrote:Which php compilers allow me to sell the compiled software as commercial software?
To my knowledge, all of them do.
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Which one of them is the best?
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jaymoore_299 wrote:Which one of them is the best?
Depends on your needs. What defines best? Cheapest? Easiest? Most secure?
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i dont think php is compiled i believe its interperted
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thegreatone2176 wrote:i dont think php is compiled i believe its interperted
It can be both.

http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php
The Zend Encoder compiles and converts plain-text PHP scripts into a platform-independent binary format known as a 'Zend Intermediate Code' file. These encoded binary files are the ones that are distributed instead of the human-readable PHP files. The performance of the encoded PHP application is completely unaffected!
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jaymoore_299 wrote:Which one of them is the best?
RoadSend PHP Compiler, is quiet nice for its price, $89 or so for personal, or $399 for professional, professional is obviously extremely better than personal, as it allows static exes, which adds roughly 7 MB or so to the exe, but with an exe compresser, such as UPX, you can bring it down to 1 MB.
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I suppose that means there's not a good free one, eh? :lol:
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Skara wrote:I suppose that means there's not a good free one, eh? :lol:
I've not seen a free solution that actually compiles the code into an exe, except for one, that turned it into C, which you had to compile, the others I've seen aren't viable for this, because you can see the source code.
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Skara wrote:I suppose that means there's not a good free one, eh? :lol:
Free? Not that I know of. Extremely cheap, yes: http://www.ioncube.com/online_encoder.php
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Yes IonCube is very popular. Zend also produce Zend Encoder and Zend Optimizer but they are quite pricey.
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