Re: Hiding the source!

I'll give you the client's view....If it were in my budget I wouldn't be sitting here night after night trying to learn another programming code, plus MySQL, plus designing a web site, actually two web sites. If I could budget the money I'd hire a designer and programmer and get on with other important matters. I wouldn't bother with the nuts and bolts for the same reason, though I know how to paint, I wouldn't use my time to paint the office...I'd hire someone to do the painting or run new electrical circuits, or assemble desks or try to do my own accounting. Of course this isn't true for all clients, some will, not matter what or their experience level, try and paint the office on their own. ken Ben Heuer wrote: > > Hehe, I am new, but not THAT new. :) > > We are a development company and we develop websites for clients. Now if we > want to develop something for our clients, and we want to avoid > reproducibility of code, PHP has a drawback because theoretically my mgmt > will argue that "Why not use Java when we can hide all our source with it?" > > My feeble attempts at it: > > 1. Because Java takes a lot more time than PHP. > 2. Java takes a whole lot more of frills and ancillaries to actually > execute, where as PHP is just PHP, I dont need a ton of libraries and APIs > for every little sneeze. > 3. Because Java (imo) is much slower. > 4. And most importantly, because I can "decompile" Java code as well if I > really were to steal code. (I was told that decompilation can be prevented > to an extent, though I am not sure about it) > > Comments/guru-speak/suggestions/experiences welcome!! > > Ben > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Web Master [mailto:webmaster@unni.com] > | Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:02 PM > | To: ben_heuer@artlover.com > | Cc: PHP > | Subject: Re: [PHP] Hiding the source! > | > | > | Hi Ben, > | > | I am not a guru but love PHP. When you said 'You can see the > | source', do you > | mean PHP source? I don't think so. If you execute a php program > | in a HTML the > | result is nothing but a HTML (even if you try to see the source). > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net