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shasi kanth
shasi kanth

Reputation: 7094

Hide source code in PHP GTK

i have a peculiar question. Iam developing a php GTK2 desktop application, and my purpose is to hide the source code from the client, to whom i will handle the desktop application (deploy in his system), once it is completed.

Our motto is to enable the client to run the application, without the need for a browser.

I have heard about tools like ioncube encoder that can encrypt the php source code. I want the same functionality to be achieved with the GTK application.

Others must not be able to see the source code. How can this be achieved ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 859

Answers (2)

Pierre
Pierre

Reputation: 5156

I have never heard of a good free solution for this.

There is a couple of vendors providing tools to do this. By googling I found this page that presents different solutions:

http://www.seocompany.ca/software/free-encryption-software.html

I think the Alladin usb key encryption system is one of the most robust one, but not free.

And you can also make a copy of your code and remove all comments, use only non-explicit variable names etc, so that even if your customer breaks the encryption, it would still be hard to understand the code...

Hope this helps!

P

Upvotes: 1

Etienne Marais
Etienne Marais

Reputation: 1690

If you want to go the paid for route, ioncube seems good. I've found a nice article that explains this and gives you some options - it seems like Zend has the best solution if you go by price.

http://www.zubrag.com/articles/php-source-code-encoders-and-protectors.php

I hope this helps you.

Upvotes: 1

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