Zend Guard, formerly known as Zend Encoder, protects your commercial PHP 4 and PHP 5 applications from reverse engineering, unauthorized customization, unlicensed use and redistribution.
Software vendors are increasingly writing applications in PHP with the aim of distributing them via download or CD. It is critical that the source code and intellectual property of the applications being distributed is secure, regardless of whether the applications are free, for evaluation purposes or for commercial sale.
The Zend Guard, with its key components of Encoding, Obfuscating and Licensing, make this distribution worry free.
Zend Guard, likes its predecessor Zend Encoder, allows Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and IT managers to safely and confidently distribute and manage the deployment of their PHP applications while protecting their source code.
Zend Guard 4 not only encodes the source code of your application, but also increases source code protection through obfuscation of the various application name components.
Zend Guard 4 is the only product that obfuscates object oriented programs created with PHP 4 and PHP 5.
Product Benefits:
* Enables PHP source code protection (against copyright infringement and reverse-engineering) of commercial PHP applications through advanced encoding and obfuscation technologies.
* Provides IT Managers with a solution that prohibits modification of their internal PHP application source code so they can effectively support them.
* Allows ISVs to impose a variety of licensing policies on commercial PHP applications.
* Enables vendors to increase their revenue by choosing from a variety of licensing models such as concurrent users, time limited, segment of network, or server specific.
* Zend Guard is the most widely distributed PHP encryption product on the market. Available for over 7 years, Zend's dedicated team of developers makes it the most stable and robust encoder on the market.
* Zend Optimizer - the most widely distributed PHP run time optimizer on the market.
* Streamlined integration with Zend Studio - just one click and your PHP application is encoded.
* Auto-detects and suggests PHP code elements (such as functions and methods) to exclude them from being obfuscated. This significantly reduces development time.
Protect your PHP with Zend Guard:
* Distribute your PHP applications without revealing source code.
* Provide protection against copyright infringement.
* Protect from reverse engineering - the code is both obfuscated and encoded.
* Obfuscate and encode your entire project in just a few seconds.
* Improve PHP script performance using the most advanced code optimization techniques available.
* Deploy your applications on the most widely used platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX.
Changes in Zend Guard from version 4.1 to 5.0.1
This new major product update provided unprecedented code protection and an improved user experience. We've been working hard to bring new innovation to our product line, in order to provide better protection for your intellectual property. This new version increases protection during the encoding phase, thus making it harder to reverse-engineer your PHP applications.
A completely new GUI (graphical user-interface) provides unprecedented ease-of-use to the encoding process. You can now encode more efficiently and transparently, while keeping the application's performance optimal.
Key Improvements:
* PHP 5.2 Support
* New User Interface - New UI based on Eclipse RCP technology for easy files management and control divided into different tabs of configuration:
o Overview - Configure your application general information including optimization level, error handling and source options.
o Security - Define encoded files expiration date, licensing configuration and obfuscation options.
o Exclude list - Scan the files for suggested encoded files exclude list or select files manually.
o Header information - Provide customized header information or user Zend Guard default header.
o XML Editor - Customize Zend Guard configuration XML file manually.
* Easy license management - New product license wizard with separate private key control and customized license information.
* Wild cards support for exclude list
* Variables support for easy file paths description
* Encoded files lock mechanism
* Line numbers removal option
Exclude resources support
Allows you to exclude files and folders from obfuscation (the resource will be copied as is to the output location without obfuscation and without encoding). Users can select a folder or a file and exclude it by selecting "Exclude resource" from the context menu.
Support for non English operating systems (i.e. Japanese)
A support for selecting non-English source folders and output folders was added. This feature was tested with Japanese operating system on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Documentation Help - Obfuscation
The obfuscation section (for greater protection of your code) and the scenarios that require using the Exclude list to overcome runtime errors that may result from obfuscation was reviewed and modified.
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