Re: Protecting Commercial PHP Scripts

* and then Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso declared.... > >I was wondering if anyone might have suggestions or useful links on > >protecting commercial php scripts. > > > >I am about to design a system that would be pretty valuable in a very > >niche market and would not wish the script to be passed on to others > >once downloaded. > > There's no way to protect the code from copying. The only way to do that > is not to give no one the code, provide the service based on the code > instead of the code itself. Dont waste your time looking for a solution > for a lost battle. It's just an advice, of course. I've had about 5 off list (why so many today?) telling me about zend encoder so that would seem not to be true. Thankyou all, i will check out the links, and especially the zend encoder page ;-) -- Nick W