Just a quick answer to your question, regarding Cold Fusion. It does come with a way to "encrypt" the files. So, just like PHP, you still have your text based scripts, but you can encrypt them, so that the source code can only be seen by Cold Fusion, which un-encrypts it, then runs it.
The down side is the encryption was cracked, so encrypted code really isn't protected. In fact, there were several tags that were not publicized, and were only used in the "Cold Fusion Administrator". Once the encryption was cracked, the makers of Cold Fusion had to add the ability to disable the hidden tags, as the administrator itself had been decrypted. I share the concern with protecting code. I use the "obfuscating" process to try to protect some of my Perl scripts. The concept would probably work in a PHP setting. The concept is to remove all the comments and unnecessary white space, while also turning all variables into non descriptive names. This means that PHP can still read it, but it's very difficult for people to interpret. Of course, that would only make code tougher to steal. HTH, Peter Janett New Media One Web Services ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Upgrades Are Now Live!!! Windows 2000 accounts - Cold Fusion 5.0 and Imail 7.1 Sun Solaris (UNIX) accounts - PHP 4.0.6, mod_perl/1.25, Stronghold/3.0 (Apache/1.3.22), MySQL 3.23.43 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PostgreSQL coming soon! http://www.newmediaone.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Apc-cache] Re: [PHP-DEV] NEW PHP standalone compiler (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Here we try again) > Manuel Lemos wrote: > > >>If it still look too expansive to you, compared to the free perl compiler, > >>there is also a perl compiler that costs $5,000... > >> > > > >Alain, be serious, Java compilers cost nothing. I know for a fact that a > >lot of people are discarding PHP because there is not an officially > >supported and free solution to compiler and distribute PHP application > >binaries when in Java and other languages that is a natural thing. > > > >This means that people drop PHP when they realize that it isn't as easy > >to protect their code to sell their applications. Until PHP developers > >realize that it is important to make it easy for PHP users to sell their > >applications, PHP will be seen as a less appealing solution. > > > > As an aside, Cold Fusion seems to be a popular choice amongst many > people, yet I'm not aware of > a 'compiler' option for it. Does it exist, or am I just missing something? > > It seems because there are a few standard JVMs, you can 'compile' Java > and have it work on any of them. > With the Zend Engine system, I need to also make sure my decompiler > (APC) is installed in that server environment, > meaning it's one more thing for people to setup. And with the > incompatibilities of running, say, APC and Zend Optimizer > together, there's just confusion and I dare say a bit of frustration > being created. > > It'd be great if I could run APC and Zend Optimizer together, so people > could run 'compiled' scripts from APC or > Zend Encoder on one server, but I don't think that'll ever happen. At > least not with the current > Zend Engine in PHP. > > Perhaps (and I know it's been said before) what is needed is an open > engine that could interpret and > execute PHP separately from the Zend engine (although they've done a > really good job at speed!) > > There was someone writing PHP->C converter sometime back - did that ever > pan out? Any URLs for that? > > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
