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php compilers

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:45 pm
by jaymoore_299
Which php compilers allow me to sell the compiled software as commercial software?

Re: php compilers

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:04 pm
by Roja
jaymoore_299 wrote:Which php compilers allow me to sell the compiled software as commercial software?
To my knowledge, all of them do.

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:24 pm
by jaymoore_299
Which one of them is the best?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:31 pm
by Roja
jaymoore_299 wrote:Which one of them is the best?
Depends on your needs. What defines best? Cheapest? Easiest? Most secure?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:39 pm
by thegreatone2176
i dont think php is compiled i believe its interperted

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:32 pm
by Roja
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!

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:32 pm
by Revan
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.

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:55 pm
by Skara
I suppose that means there's not a good free one, eh? :lol:

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:13 pm
by Revan
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.

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:33 am
by Roja
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

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:06 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Yes IonCube is very popular. Zend also produce Zend Encoder and Zend Optimizer but they are quite pricey.