Re: protect source code

> I am on a project and the issue that struck me is how to protect my source > codes which is in human readable form. There isn't any way for me to > protect my database and the only way that I had found out is to use the PHP > encoder provided by Zend.com to encode the source code. However, the > price of a commercial license for each machine (since it use host ID or > hostname as the key) is too costy and I am trying to find an alternative or > a cheaper packages available. Please help. Generally the best way to protect your source code is through an approproiate license. If you really can't trust your customers to abide by such a license, perhaps you shouldn't be doing business with them. An alternative is to put some of your critical code into a PHP extension that you distribute as a shared library with your application. Compiled C code in the form of a .so is rather difficult to reverse engineer. -Rasmus