Protect source?

[gangsterwanster1]

I remember a while ago seeing a source that protected all of its string with base64. though its not that powerful of protection it still helps somewhat, so does anyone have an example of this implemented?

[gffg4574fghsDSGDGKJYM]

This show how it's done :

 

<?php

$code = "echo 'hello world!';";

$b64 = base64_encode($code);

echo $b64."<br>";

eval(base64_decode($b64));

?>

 

But it didn't provide any kind of security.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_code

 

[gangsterwanster1]

So then whats the best way to obfuscate php sources

[gffg4574fghsDSGDGKJYM]

Outsourcing !!! No good programmers would ever dare to work on such bad code, you're safe ! just kidding...

 

There many ways but i'm not sure one of them is really secure.

 

I think you should be more concern about why you are doing that than about how. If someone has access to your filesystem, php code hidden or not it can do a great deal of damage.

 

Why did exactly did you want to hide your code ?

[gangsterwanster1]

Outsourcing !!! No good programmers would ever dare to work on such bad code, you're safe ! just kidding...

 

There many ways but i'm not sure one of them is really secure.

 

I think you should be more concern about why you are doing that than about how. If someone has access to your filesystem, php code hidden or not it can do a great deal of damage.

 

Why did exactly did you want to hide your code ?

because i was thinking of sending it to my friends but i want to make sure that they cant rip it / make their own version.