Posted by Evil Otto on 06/08/07 20:12

On Jun 8, 2:43 pm, cmk...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi
> I need to put my php source to customer's server and i don't want
> it to view the code because i am getting his monthly fee. How can i
> encrypt it? Any free tool? I am a newbiesssss
> thanks
> from Peter (cmk...@hotmail.com)


Let me make sure I understand..

Your customer runs a web server, and he's paying you a monthly fee for
some code that you've written?

While what you're suggesting might be technically possible (although I
don't know how you'd go about doing it) it's impractical in the
extreme. Your customer owns and (I'm assuming) controls that web
server. For the PHP module to read and interpret the code, it must be
able to read the files on the web server, and therefore the files must
be readable. Your customer can read any file on that server.

What exactly is he paying you for? A monthly access fee to your
code? That isn't going to work.

Most PHP coders I know charge an hourly rate up front. Any
maintenance is billed hourly as well.

If you're looking to generate code that does what you're looking to
do, I suggest C or another compiled language, not an interpreted one
like Java or PHP or Perl.

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