NYCPHP Meetup

[csnyder]

On 4/5/06, Dan Cech <dcech at phpwerx.net> wrote:
> Keith Richardson wrote:
> > Has anyone here dealt with php encoders? I am looking into using one, and
> > wanted to go with the best, most affordable one that works without having to
> > install anything on the system level for customers to use the software.
> >
> > Any thoughts/experience?
>
> I use ionCube (http://www.ioncube.com/) at work and it works very well.
>
> It's trivial to bundle the loader with your software, so that the user
> doesn't have to install anything to run the encoded files.
>
> One caveat is that if the user has an older version of the loader
> already installed on their system it will need to be upgraded or removed
>  before the files encoded with the newer encoder will work.
>
> Dan


... another caveat would be that it only works with php4 (or did last
time I checked).