[olug] PHP obfuscators / compilers?

[Lou Duchez]

Deployment of a Web app.  Obfuscation isn't an issue if I can run my app 
on a server that I control access to, but if the client wants to run it 
on one of their servers, I need to not give them readable source code.

One of the reasons I'm liking ionCube is that it alleges to have 
licensing options: if we license it for a given server of the client's, 
we can tie that licensing to the IP address or to the MAC address.  We 
can even have the license expire after a given amount of time.  I 
haven't had time to play with all that yet, but it sounds promising.


> I'm curious, what is the motivation behind wanting to obfuscate/compile php?
>
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> http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/28915273.jpg
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> --Jay
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>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>
>> Not the way I write, baby!
>>
>> I'm sort of leaning towards ionCube at this point, though it looks like
>> its competitors are Zend Guard and HipHop.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Isn't php self obfuscating?   wink ;^)
>>> -Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Anyone have any experiences with PHP obfuscators or compilers they want
>>>> to
>>>> share?  What works, what doesn't work, any gotchas?
>>>>
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