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Source Code Protectors
Could anyone tell me what the point of source code protectors/obfuscators/whatever is? I may be missing something, but it seems to me like the most pointless thing in the world.

After all, how is anyone else gonna see your source? If somebody manages to hack you and view your source that way, your problems go way deeper than source.

So I'm just curious why there seems to be the sudden proliferation of these programs, even advertised on this site! Anybody?
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Old January 21st, 2004, 09:15 PM
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RE: Source Code Protectors
to view php source you can use

php Code:
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So source protector is useful.
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RE: Source Code Protectors
That better not work. Accessing a file with http:// means it's going through the web server, so all the PHP code will be processed. show_source() only works on locally accessible files.
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RE: Source Code Protectors
1) They allow you to distribute your program (sell it) without giving your source away....

2) Expire your scripts on a certain date and render them useless.
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RE: RE: Source Code Protectors
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1) They allow you to distribute your program (sell it) without giving your source away....


That's really just security through obscurity though. Maybe better than nothing, but don't have too much confidence in it.
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RE: Source Code Protectors
I don't know...I have a fair bit of confidence in something like Zend's Encoder:

http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php

There are many products out there that I don't have confidence in however...
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dang, kendo, good thing your wrong, else alot of web sites would be goin down...
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RE: Source Code Protectors
well i know now i made a mistake. By the way there is a peice of code that claims to be able to view php code from a site. Its in the codewalkers php code system. But of course nothing is impregnable(source code protector wise). Like matt said using zend encoder which seems to be one of the best.
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RE: Source Code Protectors
woops that came over wrong basically i was saying the zend encoder seems to be the best way at the moment to protect your source code.
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RE: Source Code Protectors
i think i found the code you were talking about. the authors grammar needs work but im pretty sure he means you can view html from other sites, and php/sql from your own site. (thats what the code does, anyway)
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RE: RE: Source Code Protectors
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1) They allow you to distribute your program (sell it) without giving your source away....

2) Expire your scripts on a certain date and render them useless.


3) Lock to certain IP, MAC address, web domain ...

BTW, there are online ones:

Encoder: http://www.byterun.com/free-php-encoder.php
Obfuscator: http://scripts.freshstartup.biz/demo/obfuscate.php
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RE: Source Code Protectors
PHTML Encoder is useful for source code protection.
Home page: http://www.rssoftlab.com/phpenc.php
You can use self-decodable scripts, you don't needs chages in PHP installation in such case.
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