Re: "blackboxing" my global functions

You can't do what you are talking about if the people have FTP access. You should look at http://www.zend.com/zend/products.php#encoder for an up coming solution to your problem. Michael Theodore Jones wrote: > Hello, > > I act as my own full-service hosting and design company and I use PHP in > some of my site designs. > > I have spent considerable time on some of my functions and such which I > generally like to put into an include file which can be accessed by all > pages "globally" within the site. What I am wondering is, how can I > "black-box" this global function include file such that it is protected > from the site "owners" FTP'ing in and downloading/viewing, but is still > accessible through the HTTP interactions to pump out HTML to the > browser? > > In a sense I consider the PHP programming I have done my "investment" > and "property" and not a part of the design of the site sold to the > client, so I seek to protect my investment and keep them from just > running off with my code and hosting on a different server. > > If anyone has any ideas (perhaps I'm missing something obvious as a > solution), please advise. > > Thanks in Advance, > > ~ Theo > > -- > 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