php encoder?

[VistaBoy]

Okay well i think this is the right forum to post in (maybe wrong)

okay dose any one know a good php encoder that is free as i do not have the money to get zend or ioncube. or do you know how people make there own encrypt as i am making a script and i want to give it out free but i want to encode it.

(do not post if you are just going to say no)

[Tomm]

The free ones use base64 encoding which you can reverse in few seconds.

However if you want me to encode something for you (I have Zend) just drop me a PM.

[Splinter]

Why encrypt php? If I buy something off you and theres a bug I want to be able to fix it myself, if I want to make improvements or changes I want to be able to.

[VistaBoy]

Why encrypt php? If I buy something off you and theres a bug I want to be able to fix it myself, if I want to make improvements or changes I want to be able to.

You have a good point there. well this is why i want to encode my php it because people keep going off at my as my coding is messy and thats way i want to hide my messy coding in the script i am making.

and Tomm thank you for your offer but some one told me once on this forum i think it was you can encrypt using base64 and some other ones and encode your work in a random oder so it would be hard for people to find out how to decode it.

[Tomm]

I would never recommend you use base64 to encode the script. Even the commercial scripts that use base64 I can decrypt easy.

You have a good point there. well this is why i want to encode my php it because people keep going off at my as my coding is messy and thats way i want to hide my messy coding in the script i am making.

and Tomm thank you for your offer but some one told me once on this forum i think it was you can encrypt using base64 and some other ones and encode your work in a random oder so it would be hard for people to find out how to decode it.

[ScottDiamond.]

base64 is so easy to decrypt.

[VistaBoy]

Well i could have my script not encoded but i know people will say the coding is crap look ill show you what i mean

 
      global $template, $_GET;
      $setting = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `setting` WHERE `id` = '1'");
      $setting = mysql_fetch_array($setting);
      $template = 'includes/skins/' . $setting[skin] . '/main_page.php';
      $temp = fopen($template, 'r');

thats a bit out of my script.

[Tomm]

Why is $_GET defined as a global.. its a superglobal by default

[Eric30]

as long as u are sure there are no bugs, encrypting can be good as it stops people looking a source code to find places where it should be exploired.

I wouldn't suggest a free one tho, what you could do is, obfuscate your php code. There are free programs which do that.

All it does is change all the vars and code into loads of random letters, which makes it very hard to read,