Which php encoder do you use?

Hi all,

Which php encoder do you use?

Thanks in advance.

zend?


personally I don't use it, if you own your own server, you can use eacclerator to speed up the php script by 3X to 5X.

ooh, Zend looks nice.

I use Python / Django now. Used to use Zend, but Python is just such a superior language to PHP it's not even funny.

Thank you for your reply.

@yoko,Indiepath: If php was encoded as bytecode, will it run faster and more secured?

@FlameDuck: On the official web site, it says it is for news. Do you mean you could build web application with only "Python / Django"? Are there any visual tool for "Python / Django"?

Thanks in advance.

Yes. Django is a MVC'ish webapp framework.

What do you mean by "Visual Tool"? Eclipse has a very good Python plug-in, making it the definitive champion of Python editors.

>>@yoko,Indiepath: If php was encoded as bytecode, will it run faster and more secured?

Typically yes, but not so magical, about 1.5X faster, far slower than eacclelerator(3X to 5X) or FastCGI(up to 9X with large site, but hard to configure)

However, it's secure enough if you use zend 3.X to protect your php scripts, if you are selling some web stuff, you should consider zend if you don't want it to be open source.

@FlameDuck:
What I mean "visual tool" is Wysiwyg editor that is similar to Dreamweaver? Is this exist for "Python/Django"? Or when you design your web page, you have to guess the position of the button?

@yoko:
1. Besides, there is phpShield. Is it ok or not?
2. As you mentioned, if we use php encoder and encode sensitive data with php code, could we use some cheap plan for hosting? (because even someone download the data, he could not decode what data are stored inside.)

Thanks in advance :)

Kind of. You can use the PSP project (Python Server Pages - and thus by extension Dreamweaver) to generate your HTML if you insist - however once you get used to using Cheetah, you probably won't want to.

No, that's what CSS is for. When you design your website, you do it in a semantically correct fashion. Then you apply the design using CSS, making sure to keep content and layout separate.

Well, leeme explain it:

1.Zend is TOO expensive for personal, however most ISP have zend loader pre-installed, and although the so-called "dezender" floating around, most of them can't restore the source completely.

2.phpShield is cheap solution, however you need to ask the ISP to install it's loader(it's mostly impossible).

Some alternative(ie. no loader required...etc)

SourceCop (US$30)
http://www.sourcecop.com/
It doesn't require you to install any loader on your space, the protect strength is not good, people with php skill may possibly revert the source ,but it works.

ionCube Standalone Encoder (US$199)
http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php
This one has better protection, and doesn't need external loader, evalution available, a few of my friends are using it because zend encoder is nearly $1000.

Thank you.
:)