Re: PEAR::Strip_Comments

Idea of a simple scrambler like this is merely to make the source code human-illegible (although logically equivalent PHP): - better security - better control of intellectual property (like in a client's intranet) Scrambling is performed on a snapshot just before deploying in the production environment. Of course developers continue to work on the non-scrambled code! I haven't done it, but it looks feasible. Ignatius _________________________ "Davey" <davey@php.net> wrote in message news:20040430104630.81803.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Ignatius Reilly wrote: > > > actually this could be a first step to a code scrambler, that would be of > > use to those who can not use a PHP encoder: > > - remove comments > > - rename classes, functions and variables in files from the cgi-bin dir with > > meaningless names > > - rename files > > ( I have no idea how to scramble the SQL code...) > > > > Uhm: > > If you rename the class in the code... how does the developer know what > to call when doing: new $classname? > > doh! > > - Davey