Please Help - Web Application

[pacchiee]

Dear Friends,

 

I am developing a free Web Based Application using PHP-MySQL on a LAMP Server for the use of Co-op Societies in Villages to collect milk on a daily basis and carry out periodic tasks of document generation. Initially, the Apache will run on the local WIN-2000/XP machine and all files loaded locally till the project gets a centralized server (don't know how long it would take or might not happen also!). Regarding this application, I have a couple of questions:

 

1. Is there any way I can protect source code (since files are stored in the localhost)?

2. The application needs to get the input data from an Electronic Weighing Machine to a Text Field. I have no idea whatsoever how to get this done.

 

Thanks in advance.

[RussellReal]

com objects for the weighing machine

(don't ask me to write it for you I am not experienced with com objects)

 

and for securing your PHP files' contents.. that is pretty much impossible mainly because no matter HOW you try to GET the data to the user

 

whether by sending it from a remote server, or trying to jumble the code where it is really hard to interpret how it works.. the code will still be accessible to the end user 1 way or another.

 

how you would go about semi-securing your files... you'd probably want to look into an actual programming language where you COMPILE your code so the language code gets shifted into machine code.. but even then it can STILL be de-compiled