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How to make my php application 'Not readily reverse engineerable' (apart from Obfuscation)

Hi Suppose we need to deploy the php application we created in our customer's site. How can we make it secure that it have the least chance of reverse engineering by their inhouse team. When I search in the Laracasts search boxabout this, all i get are discussions and not a video on the same topic ALBEIT it is such an important feature the programmer require in his product. Its code-compilation or any similar process. Or is there a video there in LAracasts already. Can Jeffrey guide us a bit elaborately on this.

Thanks Riatec

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Look into ioncube and zend guard. Those are the only real ways to hide your code.

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riatec.kp's avatar

Thank you GCWILLIAMS.,! I will check those

martinbean's avatar

@riatec.kp If you don’t want your customers to reverse-engineer your code then don’t put it on their servers.

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