What would be a good software, preferably free, to encode PHP files? This is for a script I wish to sell to people, but do not wish to be tempered with.
If you do that, be clear that the script will be encoded in the marketing phase because people don't like to discover themselves that they don't have the sources - by nature most people expect to have an non-encoded script when they buy PHP They are a bunch of good free PHP obfuscator but the code can always be reverse engineered: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=free+"php+obfuscator"&btnG=Search Byte code compile is the solution but you have to deploy a binary on your hosting/server