Encrypting a PHP file?

Anon

OK....gotta question here about encrypting a PHP file.

I have a "very secret" :-) program that my partner wants noone to see.

Instead of keeping to ourselves, he wants to sell it.

So, to keep others from seeing the PHP code once we install it on their servers, we were kind of curious if it could be encrypted and still work, with the user (customer) never being able to see the code.

Any suggestions. I know didley about encryption.

harlan

I don't believe the PHP parser will be able to read mangled files.

If you re-write PHP to read your fucked up format that would work. But then they could just look at the source of PHP. PHP is GPLed so you've have to provide the source of your modified PHP engine.

Anon

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