UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting cripting source code

is there a way to make the source code of a PHP script non readable (like compiling it or something similar) ?

I know an other bulletin board has it's code cripted in order to stop users from viewing or hacking it.

do you know how to do it ?

not unless you have some sort of interpreter to do that, else you'd have to do it like:


and you can change eval() to echo() and get the source

Well, there is the Zend Encoder which can compile PHP code into binary format, but I doubt that's what you're looking for considering the licensing cost.

thanks for your answers; I'll take a look

I checked the Zend website, but even with the free compiler you have to install a plugin on the server itself.

what I really want to do is stop people i give the script to having access to it (inside is my login and password to my database) or maybe modify it, eventhough I am pretty sure they wouldn't be able to do it.

John, would you have some more informations on how to use the eval function ? It might be enough for what I am trying to do

thanks

You're giving your database login to people??

If this is something they'll install on their server, just delete the username/password or change it to something like 'CHANGEME'

well not exactly, I am building a contact database and want these people I am going to give the script to to ba able to access it thru their own website.

I made a custom version of the script to match their design so I can't ask them to use the one I have on my site. (so they have to install the other one on their own sever)

so you see I need to leave all the database connexion info (but since it's the same than my ftp account I'd rather not let them see it)