is there some file thats needed other than zend OP or Zend Guard in order to edit a php site
The Zend Guard Loader is a PHP extension that runs PHP scripts encoded by Zend Guard. The Guard Loader extension must be installed on each Web server that runs files that were encoded with, or use, Zend Guard licenses. The Zend Guard Loader translates encoded files to a format that can be parsed by the Zend Engine.
To install the Zend Guard Loader:
1.Download and extract the Zend Guard Loader (Runtime for PHP 5.5 or 5.6) package from Zend.com at: http://www.zend.com/en/products/guard/downloads
2.Locate and extract the ZendGuardLoader.so (Linux) or ZendLoader.dll (Windows) that corresponds to your PHP version.
3.Add the following line to your ‘php.ini’ file for loading the ZendGuardLoader