This "Wizard"-style application achieves genuine PHP script source protection using bytecoding and compression. Encoded scripts should run on any platform with the Bcompiler extension (available for Windows, Macs and most flavours of Unix) activated.The Encoding Assistant is particularly intended for developers wishing to deploy PHP applications on the Windows platform without on the one hand having to package everything in an .exe file and on the other distributing clear-text PHP files open to modification by all and sundry. Using Bcompiler as the backend, it enables developers to compile all PHP5 files to compressed bytecode,thus giving protection from unauthorised intervention by end-users and malicioushacking. The particular attractions of this application are:1) It is about ten times cheaper than competing products (£9.50 for 6 months).2) PHP source code to be compiled needs no modification and deployment requires only the presence of a single, readily available PHP extension in the runtime environment.3) The application is supplied in a Windows installer containing all necessary components for the Assistant to work "out-of-the-box".
