> Well, without the Encoder the entire *possibility* of "seriously proprietary
> kickass scripts" that people distribute and sell is out of the question.
Let's not go overboard here. You can build and sell serious stuff without
an encoder. Obfuscating the code is not a requirement for all people. A
usage license attached to the code that specifies what the client can do
with it is often all it should take. If you really are building serious
stuff that you sell to serious customers, then they are not likely to
violate a license to save a few hundred dollars.
If there are some things you really need to hide, and perhaps also really
need to make fast, then write yourself a PHP extension in C that
implements this critical logic and load that. This gives you a nice
performance boost and you can still let your customer modify the
look-and-feel part of the application.
And yes, the Zend encoder is another approach, but saying it is out of the
question to do anything like this without the encoder is a bit misleading
as far as I am concerned.
-Rasmus
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