Hiding Proprietory Code

[TheFenom]

Hi all,

I'm starting a system which will be installed across many company servers and not hosted on one particular server. I therfore want to prohibit access to some of the proprietory code (ala Microsoft ) ). I've started experimenting with COM, is there any other way to do this? Also does anyone know where I can get more information/resources regarding COM programming in PHP.

 

[sleipnir214]

What kind of proprietary code? If you're talking about proprietary PHP code, you can use Zend Encoder to make your PHP code unreadable but still executable.


Just keep intellectual property concerns in mind. If you are writing this as an employee of the company or under contract to the company, the code belongs to the company, at least in the U.S. If this is the case, make sure that you haven't closed off access to the source code.


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[Zych]

Hey sleipnir214,

That Zend Encoder looks nice but boy is it expensive. I guess it is worth it if you really need to protect your code. It just hurst to look at that price.

- Zych

 

[sleipnir214]

There are open-source and less-expensive close-source products that can do the similar things. Check out:[ul][li]PHP Encoder[/li][li]Turck MMCache[/li][/ul]I have no personal experience with either product.

These products will require that a component be installed on the web server for the encoded scripts to run. But Zend Encoder requires this, too.


Again, it's important to make sure you understand the meaning of the word "proprietary" as it applies to this application. If you encode a script that the owner of that intellectual property cannot get to, you could be in violation of law. Much of protection of the source code in a portal or intranet website can also be accomplished by setting sufficiently-paranoid permissions on the server.


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