I want to sell my php pre-scripts to developers … what must i sell…the class only ?
Question by Zach: I want to sell my php pre-scripts to developers … what must i sell…the class only ?
what should i include ? i need advice pls..
Best answer:
Answer by Mohamed.Mansour
Hello,
You have to sell the script that your selling. And yes the source code as well. Ouch eh? 🙂 Cause how else can they post it on their webserver if they don’t have the source?
There are many ways to encrypt your PHP Files so incase your selling them to developers, it would make it difficult to reverse engineer them or even steal your code.
1) You can use Zend Guard which costs money, but that acts as a real solution to protect your source code. So you can give licensing to the developers. you can place a timelimit , timebomb, trials, etc to your php scripts. Think of it as a copyright saftey. I havn’t heard any rumours of it being decrypted. You have to have a module installed with PHP to have this enabled. http://www.zend.com/products/zend_guard
2) You can use any form of PHP encryption. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=PHP+Encryption
3) There are some programs that garbles the variables and layout of the PHP which makes it hard to understand the code. They change every variable to a random word, and place eveything in one line. So if they try to look at the code, they wont understand what is going around cause eveyrthing is everywhere. This will help PHP Optimization. Many PHP Encryptors have this feature as well.
That is it, I guess… That is the only way to encrypt your php files and you can sell it to developers.
Zend Guard is pretty cool, I used it many times, and it worked excellently. I like the way we can give licensing keys for PHP scripts 🙂
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