Re: protecting your php code from other peeping toms?

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:14:39 -0400 impersonator of matt@willetts.com (Matthew Loff) planted &I saw in php.general: > >Are there any open source efforts to clone the Zend PHP compiler, so >that PHP scripts can be distributed in binary form? > I don't know of _common_ efforts in this direction. May be it is against open php policy:) (if i do a pre-processOR [not open], it 'll cost half of of zend's $$ - 1200/install:)) >There is already the Win32 PHP compiler intended for PHP+GTK scripts... > No much use if it is only for windows. What/where it is and how $$, btw? In any case even it is exits for *unix also it should be in every PHP (say 4) installment, which is unlikely. I would rather think of kind of _preprocessor_ , capable to load the code and execute phps from memory via existing php processor. For that we need to know some php internal/ way to effectively invoke this processor with a given string (not file) >> >>Write CGI script in a compiled language, C, C++ or INTERCAL, and run it >>from your PHP scripts. >> >Thats a possibility, if to consider it in conjunction with PHP. But >better >to do it other way around, i think: run CGI compiled (small) handler >stuff >first, and call your (effectively) compressed PHP from it, to take >advantage of PHP speed and functionality. > > i leonid