RE: [PHP] hosting "closed" web application for multiple users

Actually, We _are_ considering of buying Zend Encoder, but in the middle of thinking for alternatives... :-) However, sometimes vendors do not want user to have access to the _binary also_ (and then run it somewhere else), so that needs some extra protection other than the Encoder too. Regards, Steve At 19/05/2001 21:47, Craig Vincent wrote:

<snip> 2) user cannot trick other root processes to read script.php for her. Is there a better alternative? </snip> Depending on your budget yes there is. Zend has a PHP encoding utility which performs two functions, first off since it needs to run through their optimizer your PHP scripts will tend to run faster (at the expense of a bit more memory consumption) and also you don't need to worry about preventing the source code from being read as the php scripts are converted into a binary executable. License to use these programs are I believe around $600 per year but offer a wide range of additional features but I would consider it well worth it to a company rather than spending countless tech hours and security testing to prevent the source from being viewed. http://www.zend.com Sincerely, Craig Vincent