Is it possible to hide encode encrypt php source code and let others have the system

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Is it possible to hide encode encrypt the php file source code  and let others have the system installed and run on their machine

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There are commercial products such as ionCube (which I use), source guardian, and Zen Guard.

There are also postings on the net which claim they can reverse engineer the encoded programs. How reliable they are is questionable, since I have never used them.

Note that most of these solutions require an encoder to be installed on their servers. So you may want to make sure your client is comfortable with that.

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There are some online services for obfuscate php to hide the code from others  This is one Right Coder s Free Obfuscator Online   Glavic is right   Nothing is bulletproof   You can encode your source code and hide from bigger programmers  not from experts

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There are many ways for doing that  you might want to obfuscate the source code  you can compress it        Some of these methods need additional code to transform your program in an executable form  compression  for example    But the thing all methods cannot do  is keeping the source code secret  The other party gets your binary code  which can always be transformed  reverse-engineered  into a human-readable form again  because the binary code contains all functionality information that is provided in your source code

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Yes  you can definitely hide encode encrypt the php source code and  others  can install it on their machine  You could use the below tools to achieve the same    Zend Guard IonCube SourceGuardian phpSHIELD phpBolt  free    But these  others  can also decode decrypt the source code using other tools and services found online  So you cannot 100  protect your code  what you can do is  make it tougher for someone to reverse engineer your code   Most of these tools above support Encoding and Obfuscating    Encoding will hide your code by encrypting it  Obfuscating will make your code difficult to understand    You can choose to use both  Encoding and Obfuscating  or either one  depending on your needs

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You could just split the frontend and backend  The frontend is hosted on the customers server with an API that makes calls to the backend on your server  This keeps all of the proprietary code proprietary and forces users to sign up   pay for subscriptions

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