Re: [PHP4BETA] Is there a way to "hide" the code?

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 21:43 14/12/1999 , Johan Isacsson wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm wondering if there is a way to make some php source files unreadable > >for everything else than php? I think the comming zend compiler/optimizer > >will do that but i would need to do this in about 1-2 months from now and > >i guess the compiler would take longer time than that to be released. Just > >hiding the files aren't good enough since not even the root user on the > >remote site should be able to see the code. Any hint on this would be a > >great help :) > > There's no real way to hide the code, other then compiling it into a binary > file. Zend will feature such a compiler, but I doubt it'll already be > distributed within two months. Just make your code unreadable by going against every published software engineering principle and you should be fine. <spoken with tongue firmly in cheek> -Andrei Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house. - Usenet signature