Hiding PHP code

Anon

I am a contracted programmer for a private intranet web-site and have written a PHP based application. I am not the only contracted programmer that has access to the server and would like to encript my source/include files so they cannot be editted/tampered with/stolen.

Another question I have is on Apache (1.3.12) and PHP (latest). I have used 'flush()' to try and expedite web pages being displayed, but they hang on slow pages. I have a couple of pages that access a slow database connection for data, but I they just sit on the previous page with the status bar on the bottom of the page moving slowly... and not loading the page until all the information is available from php/apache.

Final question... my next application I am writing has to be a Java applet/ application... is there anyway I can use PHP and XML to communicate to Java... examples?

Thank you,

Shawn

Anon

would like to encript my source/include files so they cannot be > editted/tampered with/stolen.

No can do.

I have used 'flush()' to try and expedite web pages being displayed, but they
hang on slow pages... until all the information is available from php/apache.

If you're using flush(), that's all the better it's going to get. The browser
may be part of the problem; although certain things like tables are guaranteed
to cause the browser to defer rendering the output, plain text is no guarantee
that it will be rendered immediately!

If all you were outputting were status information (working...) then one
solution would be to send each line inside its own <html> ... </html>
section. You can't do anything in the way of fancy formatting between lines in this case, of course, and I've found IE5.x much slower about rendering even this partial content.

Anon

I once read of a useage of Acrobat to be able to encrypt HTML files to make view source impossible. I don't know if this is correct and with PHP you'd probably run into problems as they have to executed but it might be worth a look?

Anon

I can't imagine that source was anything but a crock. Html has to be readable plain text at the browser because that's all that the browser know how to understand. Unless maybe it was talking about replacing html pages with pdfs?

Anon

I don't want to encrypt the HTML... I want to encrypt the php include files (source), so it cannot be stolen by other contractors where I sub-contract at. The output form of the php can be in the clear.

Thanks... as far as my flush() problem.. it had to do with tables... used <BR clear=all> to fix.

originally:
<table (main)>
<tr>
<td spancol=2><table (header)></table></td></tr>
<tr>
<td><table align=left (left menu)></table (close left)></td>
<td><table (content)></table (close left)></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td spancol=2><table (footer)></table></td></tr>
</table (main close)>

now:
<table (header)></table>
<br clear=all>
<table align=left
(left menu)></table (close left)></td>
<td><table (content)></table (close left)>
<br clear=all>
<table (footer)></table>

Anon

Ah, Zend is supposedly working on a compiled version of PHP; check out their web site.

snascendi

there should be something with server side includes... digging on it... if i fint something i'll let you know...