How to use eAccelerator on Apache (XAMPP)?

I am running XAMPP on windows, which is a bundle of apache and php and more. I want to use the eAccelerator to compile my webpages so that they will be unreadable by other programmer who have access to my server. I want to use it to protect my scripts rather than speed them up. The problem is I don't know how.

I actually tried to do this first with mmcache and later read about the eAccelerator and that it's already installed on XAMPP. I edited the proper line in the php.ini and enabled the eAccelerator on XAMPP. Now what's left is to compile the .php pages on my server (so that they cannot be read by other programmers) and put them on the real server. Or am I missing something?

What do you have to do in order to compile a particular webpage?

 

Why not just remove their permissions? Compiling php can slow it down.

 

I can't remove their permissions because they will know I have removed them and won't be happy. All I want is to write code that is hard or impossible to read and copy with the same ease as it is now.

 

I am not sure, but I am going to go into learning about Xampp soon.
Look up how to encrypt with Xampp maybe?

 

eAccelerator isn't really designed to protect source code.

You should take a look at Ioncube, SourceGuardian, Zend Guard, and other such products like that.