Anybody knows any Free PHP encoders ?

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Posted by hostersbill, 01-18-2012, 12:46 AM
hi everyone ? I have heard about ioncube, zend optimizer etc.. But im asking. Is there a free php encoder ? Please reply if you know ! [please dont post ioncube or zend.. becoz, i know they are not free]
Posted by webstartavenue, 01-28-2012, 07:03 PM
What's the purpose you will be using the "encoder" for? If you're looking for performance enhancements, you're looking for opt-code caching. The most well known of which is APC (free and open source). Wikipedia has a nice list (some of which are free): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_accelerators If you're looking for source code protection, there are two pieces to this: obfuscation and encryption. Obfuscation basically just scrambles the code to make it unreadable but still runnable. PHP Protect is a free obfuscator (http://www.phpprotect.info/). Generally this process can be reversed so in my opinion is relatively not useful. Encryption is the process of encrypting your code making it unusable, then a special server (Apache, etc) module decrypts the code as it requires the files. This is the most secure but also requires all users of the software to install these "loader" modules on their servers. I'm not aware of any free products in this category.
Posted by ProSrv, 01-28-2012, 07:36 PM
I found something I have to this decoder, but a normal average user will have a riddle This can be purchased at CodeCanyon for $ 6. http://envato.sitebase.be/?id=79280 Last edited by ProSrv; 01-28-2012 at 07:49 PM.

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