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[Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline)]

Hey,

Just wanted to let ya'll know I went w/ioncube..and I love it so far.

Its super easy to use (windows-gui) and works really well.

Currently, there is nothing negative to say about the software package.

- Ben

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Cech" <dcech at phpwerx.net>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] SourceGuardian 7 Sale and Questions


> Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I just recieved an email w/a promotion/sale for the SourceGuardian 
>> Encoder.
>>
>> I'd been looking into this for a bit and wanted to know if anyone could 
>> provide feedback on it. I have a lot of code I'd like to keep under wraps
>> when distributing applications to shared hosts..and even releases some 
>> parts of code 'open' and others 'closed'.
>>
>> I'm looking for comments regarding setup on linux boxes (the encoded 
>> files), running the GUI under windows..as that is my setup.
>> Also, for shared hosting and such..how is the setup..does it work well 
>> w/no php.ini edits..as I believe you load the module at run time..?
>>
>> Anyways...any feedback is helpful...
>>
>> http://www.sourceguardian.com/purchase/index.php
>
> I haven't used source guardian, but reading their documentation it seems
> quite similar to the Ioncube Loader, which we have had great success with.
>
> If you're considering runtime loading I did notice that their example on
> this page:
>
> http://sourceguardian.com/products/php_encoder.htm
>
> shows the encoded file content being passed to the sg_load function as a
> string.  To my thinking this seems like it might be somewhat slow and
> memory intensive for files of any size, as the complete encoded string
> must be loaded into memory before it is passed to the extension.
>
> All in all, I'd very carefully weigh the pros and cons between SG and
> IONCube before committing to either.
>
> I can't comment on Zend Guard, which seems to be the other big player in
> this market, except to say that their pricing structure makes for a
> tough comparison to ioncube and SG.
>
> Dan
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