Re: Zend hit (Encoder price)

> Well, without the Encoder the entire *possibility* of "seriously proprietary > kickass scripts" that people distribute and sell is out of the question. Let's not go overboard here. You can build and sell serious stuff without an encoder. Obfuscating the code is not a requirement for all people. A usage license attached to the code that specifies what the client can do with it is often all it should take. If you really are building serious stuff that you sell to serious customers, then they are not likely to violate a license to save a few hundred dollars. If there are some things you really need to hide, and perhaps also really need to make fast, then write yourself a PHP extension in C that implements this critical logic and load that. This gives you a nice performance boost and you can still let your customer modify the look-and-feel part of the application. And yes, the Zend encoder is another approach, but saying it is out of the question to do anything like this without the encoder is a bit misleading as far as I am concerned. -Rasmus