Re: [PHP4BETA] Byte-coding or protecting

What is the general feeling about people trying to keep their code secret? I mean, here is PHP, an awesome tool that is open source, as well as apache, and all the libs and helpers and API all just given to us for the common good. And then there are peoplke who want to use those free and open tools to create closed and proprietary programs. If PHP and Apache were like that then hardly any of us would even be here. To me it seems rude to try to lock up your code. What does anyone else think? A > : > which did a nice hack so that the script contents > : > go to /usr/bin/perl and the program itself would > : > be a ELF binary! (group member thinks its a C > : > script, and don't bother with it!) ;-) But that didn't > : > allow POST on the script :( > : > > : > Any ideas? > : We have the same problem and we have decided that it's a better to make > : library > : for critical points of a code. So, these pieces of a code form > : "library". > : This library you'd disposed away from developpers'groups, so the only > : admin can > : W/R and the only apache's pseudo-user (e.g. apache or web) could read > : this. > : a kind of the following: > : in a file > : ... > : <? include "$LIB/somesmartlib.lib"; ?> > : ... > : ls -l should show: > : > : -rw-r----- 1 byg apache 1175 Jan 5 16:01 somesmartlib.lib > > > Actually there are a number of other places too where I would like > to protect my code, and some sort of encryption is necessary! > > Is there any succesful implementation of PHP => C bridge? > > I see that php3 allowed -p option, is that secure enough? How can > mod_php run a tokenized script? > > Is there any other secure way in PHP4? (PHP4 doesn't allow pre-tokenization > of a script) > > > Thank you! > > > Faisal > > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > >