Hi all,
I'm close to releasing my first widely distributed (I hope) PHP application, and I wish to protect the source with Zend Encoder. Seems easy enough.
However, this is a low-cost app that was intended to work on basic installs of PHP, running on almost any server -- it uses no external libraries, and required no special compiles.
Is Zend Optimiser (required to run encoded PHP files) part of a base installation, or at the very least, is it widely spread in use (available on most hosts)?
Seems like there's no point encoding if only half of the servers out there can run the scripts. I know optimiser is available on *my* host, but that's not enough in this case!
It's not available on every PHP aware webserver, since it's not part of PHP itself.
You can give your clients two options: a. encoded file (cheaper) and b. source code (expensive). If you don't want to give them your source you can always make an reseller arrangement with a specific hosting company and forward clients who's current provider doesn't support the Zend Optimizer to that reseller account :-)
Regards,
Filip de Waard
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