What is Zend Guard?
Zend Guard enables the protection and mass distribution of commercial PHP applications. Ensuring extra protection against reverse engineering and providing robust licensing technology, Zend Guard provides software vendors the ability to safely distribute and manage the use of their PHP applications. Zend Guard is comprised of two components providing a dual layer of protection for PHP applications: • Zend Guard’s encoder: Zend Guard lets you distribute an unlimited number of your PHP applications and create PHP-driven Web sites without revealing your intellectual property. The optimization module from the Zend Optimizer provides increased security against reverse engineering and improve performance speed. Zend Guard compiles PHP source code and encodes it to a Zend Intermediate Code file. End users can run your application using the Zend Optimizer as well; it is available for free at the Zend Store. • Zend Guard’s license manager: The license manager of Zend Guard enables independent s
