Zend Guard, the most widely accepted PHP encoding and obfuscation product on the market, protects your application from unlicensed use and reverse engineering.
Zend Guard maximizes software profitability by:
Limiting unauthorized duplication or use of your applications.
Ensuring that only licensed customers use your products and that they remain within the terms of your license.
Offering flexible licensing terms that make your software products more attractive, increase sales, and improve customer satisfaction.
Increasing conversion rate from evaluation to licensed product.
Preventing other people from changing your code (all files are rendered as un-editable and external changes will corrupt the code) protecting the files against external tampering.
Encoding with the Zend Guard allows developers to encode their PHP script at any time during the development process. More importantly, this enables code to be encoded prior to distribution or publishing.
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Encoding :: Obfuscation :: Software Licensing :: Command Line Tools :: IDE Integration
You worked hard to develop your code. Now you need to protect it. Zend Guard's powerful encoding and obfuscation technologies prevent reverse engineering, copyright infringement and unauthorized modification of your code.
Encoding is a process where the PHP source code is converted to an intermediate machine readable format, just like PHP encryption. This format is hard for humans to read and convert back to source code. As a result it protects your code from casual browsing. This means that if people obtain access to your site's code they will not be able to use that for unintended purposes.
Obfuscation is a process where the code is intentionally made very hard to read as source code or as reverse engineered code. This obfuscation is designed to manage risks that stem from unauthorized access to source code. These risks include loss of intellectual property, ease of probing for application vulnerabilities and loss of revenue that can result when applications are reverse engineered, modified to circumvent licensing and then recompiled. Although reverse engineering always existed in computer software, it is especially important for in computing environments such as PHP which take advantage of dynamic processing of language elements rather than code which has been compiled into machine language before being deployed.
Zend Guard's licensing capabilities allow Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to create a variety of licensing policies for their commercial PHP applications. The product supports most commonly used licensing models such as concurrent users, time limited, segment of network, or server specific licensing. These capabilities allow vendors to maximize their revenue by preventing unauthorized use.
Compiles and converts the plain-text PHP scripts into a platform-independent binary format known as a 'Zend Intermediate Code' file. These encoded binary files can then be distributed instead of the plain text PHP protecting your hard programming efforts. Benefits of using this PHP encrypt process:
The Zend Guard License Manager both strengthens protection and enhances revenue generation opportunities.
The license file, deployed along with the encoded PHP, is validated at runtime. Licenses can be easily modified or renewed, without the need to deploy new software. Vendors can pick-and-choose from a variety of flexible licensing models:
Zend Optimizer
Zend Optimizer is now obsolete because it's included in PHP 5.3 and later. It is made available free of charge to users of earlier versions of PHP.
Zend Optimizer is loaded as a PHP engine extension. This extension,
automatically optimizes PHP scripts, and transparently detects and loads
encoded files. The Zend Optimizerâ„¢ boosts PHP performance by going over the intermediate code generated by the standard Zend run-time compiler andoptimizing it for faster execution. In addition, it runs the files encoded by Zend Guard, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications.
Zend Guard Loader (for PHP 5.3 and 5.4)
Zend Guard Loader is a free runtime application that enables PHP to run the scripts encoded by Zend Guard. It can be used freely by anyone looking to run encoded applications.
Download Zend Guard Loader free of charge, here >
Or download Zend Server, our pre-integrated PHP application stack. It includes:
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Full support for PHP 5.5 and 5.6
Full support for PHP 5.4
Full support for PHP 5.3
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