PHP guru s: compiling PHP code
 

Just started to code a little in PHP and I've written a cute little script in PHP I am thinking of selling.
is there a way to compile PHP scripts in order to hide the source code?

Their site is fucky slow right now, but what you want is the "zend encoder"

http://www.zend.com/

thanks

http://zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php

I can't believe this thing is free and will work on every server without any installation requirments on the customer's party.

I wonder if there is a catch

was aren't everybody usnig it? I still see open source php code all the tim

because they're reading it right.
Hook me up with a free copy whenever you get it :)

To encode the script, you need paid software from Zend.

To run the encoded script, the server has to use a free "add-on".

any large commercial script I have bought is using zend

and you have to pay to encode, but the decoder is free

i cant believe you coded a php script and dont know about zend lol
i would really love you to write my scripts hehe

Zend is far from free - 2-3K or more.

A free alternative is ioncube.com

But running cude and zend on the same server can cause problems from what I hear. I would pick one and stick with it unless you have multiple servers.

ioncube is years lagging behind Zend

Zend are the backbone of PHP

PHP is light years ahead of Perl*








* Just to piss of the Perl geeks

Zend are the worst kind of skum - PHP is free and they want to make it chargeable.

uhm.. yeah. <hands damian a clue> :error

If your client is not technical and is not dishonest enough to pay someone to reverse engineer, you can try my free code obfuscator. I don't have a page up for it anymore, but there's copies all over the net. Try searching for PHP Code Obfuscator (in quotes)..

It's easy for a techie to reverse engineer (you can recover the exact source code in about 10 minutes if you're technical) but if you're smart you can make it uneconomical for an untechnical client to steal the code from you.

Oh, and as far as being able to write code, and not being able to install zend.. People seem to have forgotten.. sysadmin skill are *very* different from programming skills. Generalists know both, and may even be particularly good at one.. very few people are very good at both. Most *educated* (disclaimer) programmers are ONLY good at programming.

(disclaimer) -- you can be educated without school.. but I mean school educated.

Every single professional PHP programmer reading this will be laughing out loud :1orglaugh

PHP core code is written by Zend :1orglaugh

I just wrote one of my first codes after looking at a php tutorial googling "learn php".
and guess what?there was no Zend mentioned there so you wanna kiss my ass :321GFY

hehe.. don't tell the trolls.

That would be the free php that we all know and love right?

lol yes man. Google "Rasmus Lerdorf" and "Zend" combined and get to reading. :thumbsup

lol - I would, but then my ISP would know I was a geek as well. :)

anyway - PHP is free - you can keep it free by using ioncube etc. - if you want to spend cold hard cash then use .NET - lets face it, its a better product anyway :)