Re: The future of PHP

This is very true. I have a few ideas that I want to sell, but the only way that I can do it with PHP is to give out the source, and the user is expected to know how to install PHP and set up the script. If I can compile the PHP script, then I can sell the executables. The users would only have to copy the package into a directory and use it like a cgi, and I won't have to worry about people looking into my codes. Having executable takes care of 2 concerns I have if I want to sell a solution. First, with an executable, users don't have to install PHP on their system to use my solutions. Second, users cannot see my code. Robin Manuel Lemos wrote: > > No, I mean executables that may be just like VB executables that > basically contain PHP code compiled into Zend bytecodes or whatever is > enough for most people be stopped from copy source code directly. > > A lot of people give up PHP because it does not provide affordable > conditions to let them sell whole applications that others can't still > their code, when they can just spend only US$100 or less in VB, Delphi, > Java, Kylix, etc... suite and compile programs that they can distribute > or sell to others without risking their business. > > There are a lot more other things to say on these subjects, but these > should give you enough to think for a while. :-) > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > --