How to protect PHP project from unwanted copying

[DonNadie]

I´m looking for a safe way to protect not only my php code but my php whole projects, from unwanted copies comming from the hosting company or anyone who has access to server contents.

As far as I have read, tool for enconding php scripts are quite useful, but it´s enconding proceses could be 'unencoded' (as almost any kind of compiled coded). For me the key question is. How many time they (the 'hackers' should invest on 'uncoding' work?, that´s because in some cases, the 'hacker' probabily would prefer to 'rewrite' instead 'decode'.

However now I´m looking for an easy way to distribute code between two or more servers to avoid hosting people to be 'tempted' about 'decode' and copy my php proyects.

Anyway distribute code between servers it´s not an easy work once you have writen the project. That´s because you should implement and plan the php project in most parts of it, like a web services, allowing distributed pages to 'serve' those results that you need.

[kovik]

If you were to use an encoder that could not decode the source, then how could you expect PHP to ever run your source? Personally, I think you're just being paranoid and unreasonable.

PHP is an open-source language, and PHP projects are open-source projects. If you don't like the idea of open-source code, then you are using the wrong language.