Re: Compiled Source for PHP?

yes, but what if you are building an application for commercial distribution??? Then you will certainly not want the general public to see how your system works... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Stump" <joe@earth.care2.com> To: "James Moore" <jmoore@php.net> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Compiled Source for PHP? > I release everything GPL so this is kind of null and void. I personally never > understood the reason for "hiding" code. Most people that you are giving your > code to (ie a client) has a right to your code since it's usually done under > a "work for hire" contract - so you hiding it usually breaks that. > > If you want to "sell" PHP I would recommend co-branding or becoming an ASP. > > --Joe > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:14:29PM -0000, James Moore wrote: > > > > > > > > IIRC, what it will do is work with precompiled Zend bytecode and > > > then parse > > > that when the page is requested. Writing a decompiler wouldn't be terribly > > > difficult, so there's probably not that much security, even if encrypted. > > > > > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Joe Stump wrote: > > > > > > > I'll believe it when I see it - and according to Rasmus it's > > > only going to be > > > > an obfusicator (or however you spell it) which means if you > > > have it on your > > > > machine you can jsut unobfusicate it. > > > > > > > > >From what I have heard and seen myself this is TOTALLY UNTRUE there is no > > easy way to unencode the code. The alogarithms are very complex and > > difficult to decode back to PHP. You might conciveably get it back to Zend > > Bytecode (I havnt seen the alogaritms that Zeev and Andi used) but I would > > imagine that would be a task in itself and when you get it back to byte code > > its still not much use.. youll have real fun reading through the bytecode > > and figureing out whats happening? Every decompiled a C/C++ app? You know > > you get it in ASM lang at best?? It will be like reading that but without > > any real documentation.. I havnt seen any copies of the decompiled win32 > > source code going about cause someone decompiled it to ASM then translated > > it back to C.. if you are clever enough to do that then there is no need for > > you to do it as you could write a far superior application in the time. > > > > As for the Jan release date I would imagine that is also accurate so I hope > > you will all be getting your copy from Zend on the 23rd January..Sign up > > your email here http://www.zend.com/store_update.php and > > be notified of the > > release and opening of the store when it happens. > > > > James > > -- > > James Moore > > PHP Quality Assurance Team > > jmoore@php.net > > > > --- > Joe Stump > PHP Programmer > www.Care2.com > > > -- > 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 > >